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.