Lionel S. Reiss Etching "Blessing the New Moon"
Item Details
Lionel S. Reiss (American/Polish, 1894-1986)
Blessing the New Moon
Etching on paper
Signed to the lower right margin
A Polish-American Jewish immigrant, Lionel S. Reiss was a prominent painter, etcher, and watercolorist who moved to New York City with his family in 1898. There he attended the Art Students League and studied commercial art, eventually becoming art director for Paramount Studios. Although he was most known for the creation of Leo the Lion, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios logo, Reiss was renowned internationally for his dedication to portraying and memorializing important Jewish historical figures and events and for recording the everyday life of Jewish people in Europe prior to the Holocaust. Among many other prominent galleries, Lionel Reiss’s artwork has been exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago, and is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Tel Aviv Museum, and the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Condition
- minor discolorations; wear to the frame.
Dimensions
- measurement of the frame; plate measures 8.25"W x 6.25"H.
Item #
ITMA0002CE