Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Oil painting, American response, created by William Sharp, in the United States.
- Artwork Title
- Protective Custody
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ruth Sharp
- Markings
- Title "PROTECTIVE CUSTODY" lower right; VERSO: ink stamp of William Sharp's signature top right quadrant of canvas
- Contributor
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Artist:
William Sharp
- Biography
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Leon Schleifer was born in 1900 in Germany. He served in the German army at the end of World War I (1914-1918). He became a political cartoonist and his work was published in the anti-Nazi press. He also specialized in courtroom trial sketches. After the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, Schliefer emigrated to the United States. He changed his name to William Sharp and continued his career as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator. His work was published in the New York Times, Life Magazine, and other publications. He died in 1961, age sixty-one years.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Paintings
- Object Type
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Oil paintings (visual works) (aat)
- Physical Description
- Oil painting, framed image of three men standing behind a barbed wire fence. Lower left, buildings with Nazi flag visible. VERSO: white label top left of frame #6 in graphite, WILLIAM SHARP, "PROTECTIVE CUSTODY", 20 x 23-3/4, o/c
oil on canvas
frame on painting - Dimensions
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 24.020 inches (61.011 cm) | Depth: 1.730 inches (4.394 cm)
- Materials
- overall : canvas, oil paint
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Sharp, William, 1900-1961.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The painting was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Ruth Sharp, the wife of William Sharp.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:22:29
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn8904
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Also in William Sharp collection
The collection consists of two artworks created by William Sharp, a political cartoonist who left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933.
Date: after 1933-before 1945
Aquatint depicting the American response to the Holocaust
Object
Aquatint by William Sharp depicting American response to the Holocaust.
