{"id":589,"date":"2014-07-01T16:57:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T20:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/?page_id=589"},"modified":"2014-07-09T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T22:57:59","slug":"zeldis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/zeldis\/","title":{"rendered":"Page-Zeldis"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_589'] = [\n{id: 959, image: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zeldis_Untitled1984-e1404329634646.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zeldis_Untitled1984-e1404329652399-215x213.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/zeldis\/#959\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Malcah Zeldis<\/h1><h1><i>Untitled<\/i>, 1984<\/h1><p class=\"galleria-info-description\">Oil on board<br\/>Collection of Didi and David Barrett<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/zeldis\/#959\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'},\n{id: 1163, image: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zedis_Jael-e1404946500636.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zedis_Jael-e1404946518800-215x215.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/zeldis\/#1163\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Malcah Zeldis<\/h1><h1><i>Jael, Defender of Israel from Eve and Her Sisters: Women of the Old Testament<\/i>, 1994<\/h1><p class=\"galleria-info-description\">Gouache on paper<br\/>Gift of Yona Zeldis McDonough, class of 1979, in memory of Pamela Askew<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/zeldis\/#1163\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><strong>Malcah Zeldis<\/strong> (American, b. 1931)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_457\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-457\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-457 \" alt=\"Zeldis, Malcah - August 2012, www.advancedstyle.blogspot\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zeldis-Malcah-August-2012-www.advancedstyle.blogspot-166x250.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zeldis-Malcah-August-2012-www.advancedstyle.blogspot-166x250.jpg 166w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zeldis-Malcah-August-2012-www.advancedstyle.blogspot-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zeldis-Malcah-August-2012-www.advancedstyle.blogspot.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">August 2012, photo courtesy of Advanced Style a blog by Ari Seth Cohen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Malcah Zeldis was born Mildred Brightman in the Bronx, New York, in 1931, and soon after her family moved to Detroit. After graduating from high school in 1948, Zeldis moved to a kibbutz (agricultural community) in Israel on a quest to learn more about her family\u2019s roots. It was there that she met and married Hiram Zeldis and began to paint. When Zeldis and her family moved back to New York a decade later she began to lose confidence in her art and gave up painting for the next ten years, focusing instead on her family. In the early 1970s, Zeldis enrolled in Brooklyn College as an Early Childhood Studies major. The year 1974 marked her graduation, divorce, and return to painting. Since then Zeldis\u2019s art career has gained steady momentum and her artwork has been exhibited in museums ranging from the Jewish Museum to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Zeldis has also collaborated with her daughter, Yona Zeldis McDonough, a Vassar alumna (class of 1979), to illustrate and write children\u2019s books ranging in subject from biblical stories to famous historical figures such as Anne Frank. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center holds in its collection an original painting from the book\u00a0<i>Eve and Her Sisters; Women of the Old Testament<\/i>. The painting depicts Jael, a Kenite woman, looming above the sleeping Sisera, a chieftain of the oppressive Canaanites, with a tent pin and hammer in hand.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2012 interview Zeldis describes how when fighting cancer she had difficulty painting so she turned to \u201cdressing up\u201d in order to get through the worst of her pain. She spent hours picking out her outfits, applying make-up, and matching jewelry to her ensemble. Zeldis went on to state that she is very \u201cinvolved in color and form\u201d and her art, her house, and her wardrobe reflects this, almost as if she is living within one of her paintings. Her paintings are also autobiographical in subject as she can be \u201cwhatever [she] wants.\u201d She often includes a black cat to represent her \u201cbad\u201d self, or a white cat as a stand-in for her \u201cgood\u201d self. Zeldis\u2019s paintings are revered for their abundance of bold color, imagination, figuration, narrative, and personal meaning.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-589 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-postid=\"fsg_post_589\" data-imgid=\"959\" href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zeldis_Untitled1984-e1404329634646.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zeldis_Untitled1984-e1404329652399-215x213.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-959\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-959'>\n\t\t\t\t<i>Untitled<\/i>, 1984\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-postid=\"fsg_post_589\" data-imgid=\"1163\" href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zedis_Jael-e1404946500636.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Zedis_Jael-e1404946518800-215x215.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1163\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1163'>\n\t\t\t\t<i>Jael, Defender of Israel from Eve and Her Sisters: Women of the Old Testament<\/i>, 1994\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcah Zeldis (American, b. 1931) Malcah Zeldis was born Mildred Brightman in the Bronx, New York, in 1931, and soon after her family moved to Detroit. 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