View From Civita Castellana, 2016, oil on linen mounted on wood, 17 x 47.3 cm.
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Israel Hershberg was born on November 7, 1948 in a Displaced Persons camp in Linz, Austria. In 1949, he emigrated to Israel and lived there until he was nine. In 1958, he immigrated to the United States where he attended the Brooklyn Museum School, Brooklyn, New York from 1966 to 1968.
In 1972, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. In 1973, he received his Master of Fine Arts, State University of New York, Albany, New York. From 1973 to 1984 he was instructor of painting and drawing at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. In 1984, he taught painting at the New York Academy of Art, New York, New York.
Israel Hershberg moved back to Israel with his wife and family in 1984. In 1991, he was awarded the Sandberg Prize for Israel Art and in 1998 the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize for Israel Art. The artist was the founder and director of the Jerusalem Studio School from 1998-2013, and is currently founder and director of JSS in Civita Summer Art School and Residency.
Hershberg lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel.
Israel Hershberg had a solo exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, NY in December 2016. To view the downloadable catalogue of the paintings in the show, click here.
“C-Spot- Papigno,” 2005-2006, oil on linen mounted on wood, 20.3 x 26.5 cm
“From Soratte – Study,” 2012, oil on linen mounted on wood 15.5 x 60 cm
“Todi From Afar” 2009. Oil on linen mounted on wood, 22.3 x 40.1 cm
“Fratta Todina No. 1,” 2003. Oil on linen mounted on wood, 14 x 26.2 cm
“Civita Castellana,” 2013, oil on linen mounted on wood, 24.2 x 38 cm
“Aria Umbra” 2003-2005. Oil on linen, 199 x 250 cm
“Tel Kakun” 2005-2007. Oil on linen, 250 x 68 cm
“Distant Hillside, Villa Pieve,” 2010, oil on canvas mounted on wood, 32.8 x 32.8
“In Montefeltro, View of Peglio,” 2011, oil on linen mounted on wood, 19 x 39.9 cm
“Fratta Todina From Afar,” 2005 – 2006. Oil on linen mounted on wood, 23.1 x 26.2 cm
“Toward Grizzana-Morandi,” 2012, oil on linen mounted on wood, 25.2 x 60 cm
“A Cypress Assembly” 1999. Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 20.5 x 25 cm
“Maariv” 2000. Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 21.1 x 26.9 cm
“Tree-Oh” 2001. Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 21.8 x 23 cm
“Cypress, City’s Edge” 2000. Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 21.3 x 26.7 cm
“The Chamelion” 1997. Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 33 x 26.5 cm
“Clupea Sprattus” 1992. Oil on paper mounted on board, 63.2 x 64.7 cm
“Cows Tongue # 74” 1987-1988. Oil on linen, 152.8 x 105 cm
“Cows Tongue # 74,” detail
“A Flask of Water wuth Two Lemons,” 1996. Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 24 x 18 cm
“Flask,” 2003 – 2005. Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 36.2 x 45.1 cm
“Nova” 1991-1992. Oil on paper mounted on wood, 35 x 39.5 cm
“Nova 2” 1993. Oil on paper mounted on wood, 62.5 x 82 cm
“Penumbrian Bowl” 2003-2005. Oil on linen mounted on wood, 25.5 x 35.7 cm
“Itzrubal I” 1999. Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 22.5 x 23.5 cm
“Thorn” 1989. Pencil on paper, 73 x 58 cm
detail from “Thorn”
detail from “Thorn”
Study for Stern, 1995. Soft Vine Charcoal and pencil on paper, 94.5 x 67 cm
Study for Stern, detail
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