SATURDAY NIGHT EVENT

This is the second painting I did of the Park Avenue Synagogue.  And for some reason I had a fiddler in mind so I though of the center giving a Saturday evening recital on the outside of the temple with three people, of course a fiddle, than singing  piano player, and a female saxophonist.  And of course a tea-cup for a moon.   Why not.   It all became a dream, with silver and cooper trimmings on the old part of the Schul... 

size: 30 x 40

TORAH ASCENDING

The Park Avenue Synagogue is one of the Synagogues, and there are a lot, I pass almost everyday, when I walk about and when I ride up Madison on the bus or get off the train station.  The side I see the most is a very modern congressional community center,  However, around the corner, is the earlier temple, which is very magical to me.  I have fallen in love with it, and seem to paint it often.  The painting here is the first one I did.  And what came up in my imagination was of the torah going up into the skies to receive its continual knowledge.  Since I believe that all religions must be living religions,
with their art and spirit, evolved for all time.

size: 22 x 30