Art therapy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Art Class at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1942
Item
Identifier: B063.03.0011.00050
Abstract
An art class that is part of the rehabilitation program of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) meets for a session. Male patients sit on folding chairs in a half circle around a male model wearing a robe, pajamas, slippers and hat. Max Lazarus, a German-Jewish artist, is pictured second from the left. Twenty-three charcoal drawings hang on the walls. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with...
Dates:
circa 1942