Main Gallery
There are six rooms in the Moshe Rynecki gallery. Each room focuses on a
particular genre of paintings. To visit any of these rooms, you can either
click on one of the individual rooms in the map below, or you can use the text
links (located below the image of the map).

- Family
and Home Much of Rynecki's work focuses on family and everyday life.
The images shown here include a wedding, a portrait of Rynecki's own children,
and his wife Pearl.
- Synagogue,
Teaching, Learning The synagogue is central to Jewish worship and
religious study. In these paintings Rynecki captures both of these uses as
well as the beauty of the sanctuary.
- Recreation
In the time in which we live, people have found ways to make time to
include rest and relaxation in their everyday lives. Rynecki's
contemporaries had little money or time for leisure. Thus, Rynecki's
paintings capture the most commonly available types of recreation such as
watching street musicians, chatting in the park, or playing a game of
chess.
- Work While
it may be a stretch to say that Rynecki was interested in time and motion
studies, the life of the laborer clearly intrigued him. In these
paintings, Rynecki captures both the life of the hard physical laborer as
well as those who relied upon machines to help them with their tasks.
- Holocaust
These paintings are clearly different from the others, both in their
content and their style. Rynecki's sparse use of paint, his quick brush
strokes, and his subject matter portray life from inside the Warsaw
Ghetto. Only three paintings from this time period of Rynecki's life are
known to exist.
- Portraits
While many of Rynecki's paintings are studies of people, these particular
paintings are incredibly focused on the faces of the subjects. All of
these portraits are of adolescent children, and each paintings seems to
capture a real honesty about each subject's personality.
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