March for Soviet Jewry
Artist
Paul Davis
United States, born 1938
Date1982
Dimensions44 7/8 x 29 1/2 in. (114 x 74.9 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Chisholm Larsson Gallery, New York
Object numberPH.9464
DescriptionThis poster was issued by The Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry to advertise one of the Solidarity Sundays it had sponsored since its founding in 1972. Since the 1960s, the international Soviet Jewry Movement had been urging politicians to confront the Soviet Union about its increasingly blatant persecution of the 3 million or so Jews living there, and not least Moscow’s refusal of their applications to move to Israel, enshrined in the Geneva Convention as the Right to Leave. Paul Davis’s powerful image of a Soviet Jewish woman in a traditional headscarf with eye-catching red lettering in a rough style suggesting graffiti was one of the many, mainly figurative compositions he has produced as a major illustrator for theater and movie posters, and for the covers of books, magazines, and albums since he established the Paul Davis Studio in 1963.On View
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