On the Jewish Fields of Ukraina

RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER.

Paris

1926

ONE OF ONLY 300 NUMBERED COPIES PRINTED ON JAPON PAPER. 21 reproductions of drawings and paintings

Ryback had once described the “national element” of the Jewish artist as preferring deep, dark tones; “Whenever color is bright the Jewish artist turns it down.” Following his sojourn among the Jewish Kolkozes, Ryback found the means to reverse his theories (viz. introduction): “To me, who grew up in the Pale amid the wan, worn out faces; the healthy, sunburnt, wind beaten men and women were a perfect joy, and indeed revealed to me new colors.”