“Baskind’s text is a welcome and much-needed addition to existent scholarship on Soyer and twentieth-century American art.” — CAA Reviews
“A handsomely produced and clearly written work.” — American Historical Review
“A highly commendable book that should be appreciated by anyone interested in American Jews, or the problems of expressing Jewish . . . identity in art.” — Studies in Contemporary Jewry
“Well-researched.” — Foreword Reviews
“It should help revive an interest in this far-from-minor artist.” — CHOICE
“This is a gracefully written, well-researched, and pathbreaking study of Raphael Soyer as both an artist and as a Jewish American artist. It will set a standard for similar studies in the future.” — Matthew Baigell, Professor of Art History Emeritus, Rutgers University, author of Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America
“Baskind’s study of Raphael Soyer is searching and sympathetic. Never taking the artist at his word, Baskind looks both at his paintings as well as at the diverse contexts in which he worked. She shows us an artist who is at once urban, humanistic, and figurative, but also Jewish in character and intent. A magnificent achievement.” — Wanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History, Stanford University, author of The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915–35
