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Lewis Browne
Lewis Browne (1897January 3, 1949) was a writer, philosopher, lecturer and world traveller. A rabbi, Browne turned to writing popular histories and biographies including ''This Believing World'' (1926), ''The Graphic Bible'' (1928, illustrations by Mark Rothko), and ''The Wisdom of Israel'' (1945). His 1943 novel ''See What I Mean?'' was regarded as a counterpart to ''It Can't Happen Here'' by Sinclair Lewis, Browne's frequent debate partner on the 1940s lecture circuit. Browne was considered one of the foremost authorities on the problems of comparative religion. Life and career Browne was born in London, England, in 1897. In 1912 his family emigrated to the United States via the Canadian Pacific Railway from Banff, Alberta, Banff and settled in Portland, Oregon. Browne received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1919, and a bachelor of Hebrew degree from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College in 1920. Rabbi Stephen S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko (), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, link=no, lv, Markuss Rotkovičs, link=no; name not Anglicized until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Latvian-American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Although Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American Abstract Expressionist movement of modern art. Originally emigrating to Portland, Oregon from Russia with his family, Rothko later moved to New York City where his youthful period of artistic production dealt primarily with urban scenery. In response to World War II, Rothko's art entered a transitional phase during the 1940s, where he experimented with mythological themes and Surrealism to express tragedy. Toward the end of the decade Rothko painted canvase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
