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Oil painting depicting the American response to the Holocaust

Object | Accession Number: 1994.98.2

Artwork Title: Protective Custody
Language: English
Classification: Art
Category: Paintings
Object Type: Oil paintings (visual works) (aat)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ruth Sharp

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
Markings: Title "PROTECTIVE CUSTODY" lower right; VERSO: ink stamp of William Sharp's signature top right quadrant of canvas
Contributor: Artist: William Sharp
Biography: 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.
Personal Name: Sharp, William, 1900-1961.
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.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2020-06-30 09:20:57
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn8904

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