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Co-sponsored by Spertus In- stitute's Bernard and Rochelle Zell Center for Holocaust Stud- ies and the Chicago Jewish Archives, this exhibition contin- ues through September 30. For information, call (312) 322-1747. Spertus Museum Plans Exhibits Chicago's Spertus Museum is seeking material for a forthcom- ing exhibition on Jewish humor. The curators are interested in Troy Art Gallery any significant private collection 515 SOUTH LAFAYETTE of Jewish ephemera for possible ROYAL OAK use. Among the items sought are: (810) 548-7919 humorous calendars, sign cards, Located in a restored church, posters and three-dimensional one of the gallery's specialties is objects such as joke books, games, Japanese wood block prints 18th- toys and figurines. For informa- 20th century. Hiroshige, Hasui and tion, call the museum, (312) 322- Hiroshi Yoshida will be included. 1747. For summer highlights a multi-me- The museum is making a call dia exhibition will include rural pas- for entries of designs to its Sec- tel landscapes of the Leelanau ond Biennial Spertus Prize Corn- Peninsula, watercolors of flowers petition. The ceremonial object and still lifes, as well as original for this year's competition will be prints by Karel Appel, Will Barnet, the Passover seder plate. The ju- Raphael Sowyer and others. ried Spertus Prize Competition awards a $10,000 prize for the winning artist. Finalists for the competition will be selected and notified March 1, 1996. Winning entries will be exhibited at an ex- hibition at Spertus Museum. For Advancing toward military ob- application and information, call jectives during the final stages of the museum. World War II in April 1945, American soldiers happened upon the Ohrdruf concentration camp — and were met with the sound of gunfire, as Nazi guards continued shooting prisoners up This year is the 10th anniversary until the last possible moment. of the death of Marc Chagall, and The role of American Jewish Sotheby's sale in Tel Aviv of soldiers during World War II and paintings, drawings and sculp- their involvement in the libera- ture is particularly strong in tion of concentration camps is the works by this artist. Other artists subject of "GIs Remember: World of the School of Paris are also rep- War II and the Liberation of the resented. Soutine and works by Concentration Camps," a two- his contemporaries, Jean Dufy part exhibition of memorabilia and Maurice Utrillo, also are fea- and photographs at Spertus Mu- tured along with works by Ger- seum, 618 South Michigan Av- man Impressionist Lesser Ury. enue in Chicago. In this auction, Sotheby's is Well represented among the emphasizing the early works of front-line troops, Jewish soldiers great Israeli artists. Also includ- served as infantrymen, tank ed are important works from var- crewmen, paratroopers and com- ious periods by Ardon, Castel, bat engineers. As liberators, how- Danziger, Kadishman, Kupfer- ever, their job descriptions were man, Lavie, Nikel, Pann, Stre- quickly transformed to providers ichmann and Zaritsky. of medical care, food, clothing and A group of 19th-century works loving-kindness. includes a fine selection of topo- First-hand accounts, pho- graphical views by European tographs, artifacts and memora- artists visiting Palestine during bilia tell their wartime stories. this period. A poignant highlight One section of the exhibition is of the sale is a group of seven devoted to personal reports and paintings by the artist Felix photographs taken by American Nussbaum. His works are de- soldiers while liberating victims scribed as speaking "for the ex- Spertus Museum Liberation Exhibit Sotheby Sale In Tel Aviv