Israeli Art

The Museum's Israeli Art Collection reflects the history of Palestine and the State of Israel and the unique thematic content and form of Israeli art, tracing its development from the 1920s - which marked the beginning of the Modernist style of painting in Israel - to recent paintings, sculpture and installation works by contemporary artists.

In addition to showing the collection, the Department of Israeli Art also curates several temporary exhibitions each year, devoted to group shows, individual artists (major retrospectives of established artists, one-person shows of established and young artists) historical or thematic topics, such as "The 20s in Israeli Art", "The Seventies in Israeli Art", "Portraits" "Virtual Reality" and many others. Almost all exhibitions are accompanied by Hebrew-English catalogues which provide a rare and important source of reference material. Museum awards are presented annually and serve both to encourage local artists and to enhance the Museum's collections: the Dr. Haim Gamzu Prize for the Advancement of the Arts - from the Gamzu and Aptowitzer Funds; the Leon Constantine Photography Prize for a Young Israeli Artist; the Mendel and Eva Pudnik Prize for Israeli Art; the Eugen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art; Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize for an Israeli Artist and the Nathan Gottesdiener Prize for an Israeli Artist. Over the years, the Collection of Israeli Paintings and Sculpture has grown steadily through generous gifts from artists and benefactors and through acquisitions funds, such as the Recanati Fund, the Yona Ettinger-Howard Gilman Fund, the Lily Richmond Fund and the support of the America-Israel

Reuven Rubin The Artist's Family, 1927 Collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Cultural Foundation.

Lea Nikel 1974 Oil on Canvas 114*146 Collection Tel Aviv Museum of Art	Nahum Gutman, 1898-1980 Resting at Noon, 1926 Oil on canvas Collection Tel Aviv Museum of Art	Arie Aroch, 1908-1974 Agrippas Street, 1964 Panel, oil, pencil, incision and street sign Gift of Walter and Mariana Griesmann, London, to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1989
	Yehezkel Streichman Ein Hod, 1956 Acquired through a contribution from the I srael Phoenix Assurance Company