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Abraham Rattner

Born in New York State, lived in New York City and Paris. Expressionist artist who used vivid colors to simulate (and occasionally to design) stained-glass windows; he was especially effective depicting the vulnerability of people.

Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993

Alternate Name
Rattner, Abraham
Birth
1895
Birth Location
Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
Death
1978
Death Location
New York, New York, United States
Gender
male
Nationalities
American?
American
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Selected Images of Abraham Rattner

(no title) (Abraham Rattner, 1947 July 20 - 27)
(no title) (Abraham Rattner, 1939 September 1 - October 28)
(no title) (Abraham Rattner, 14 May 1956)
(no title) (1946 November 20)
(no title) (Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ca. 1952)
(no title) (Abraham Rattner, 1968)

Objects at Archives of American Art (8)

http://data.aaa.si.edu/collection/9183
(no title) (Abraham Rattner, 1939 September 1 - October 28)
(no title) (Abraham Rattner, 14 May 1956)
(no title) (Abraham Rattner, 1968)
(no title) (Abraham Rattner, 1944)
(no title) (Abraham Rattner, 1968)
(no title) (Abraham Rattner, 1956 May 14)
(no title) (Abraham Rattner, 1947 July 20 - 27)

Objects at Smithsonian American Art Museum (181)

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out."--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. (Abraham Rattner, 1958)
Twelve Tribes of Israel (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Composition "Survivors" (Abraham Rattner, 1941)
Study for Gargoyle in Flames (Abraham Rattner)
Ark Elevation Interior and Exterior (Abraham Rattner)
Window Layout (study for Chicago Loop Synagogue Window) (Abraham Rattner)
Nude Seated near the Red Door (Nude Figure Seated--Sag Harbor) (Abraham Rattner, 1968)
Star of David (Abraham Rattner)
Fringes (Abraham Rattner)
Loop Window, Panel III, Right Side (Abraham Rattner)
The Shofar (Abraham Rattner)
Route to Petersburg, USA with Henry Miller (Abraham Rattner)
Untitled (Abraham Rattner)
Loop Synagogue Line Drawings (Abraham Rattner)
Study of Color, Panel C, Chicago Loop Synagogue Window (Abraham Rattner)
Loop-Central Panel II, C, study for Stained Glass Window, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Fringes (Abraham Rattner)
Study--Flames of Fire, Shofar and Shin Motif, Shema Panel (Abraham Rattner)
Interior Study of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
5 Studies, Panel A (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Survivor (Abraham Rattner)
The Shema (Abraham Rattner)
Design Layout in Line, Panel C (Abraham Rattner)
Study for The Shema (Abraham Rattner)
Bathers--Dieppe (Abraham Rattner)
Echod (Abraham Rattner)
The Shin Motif and Spiral (Abraham Rattner)
The Menorah (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Twelve Tribes of Israel (Abraham Rattner)
The Moon (Abraham Rattner)
Ethrog Shofar (Abraham Rattner)
Head (Abraham Rattner, 1945)
The Crown of the High Priest (Abraham Rattner)
Symbol of Tribe Reuben (Abraham Rattner)
The Star of David (Abraham Rattner)
The Scroll (Abraham Rattner)
Study for The Menorah (Abraham Rattner)
The Moon (Abraham Rattner)
Of the Dawns Rose and Blue (Abraham Rattner, 1966)
Design Layout with Dimension Notations (Abraham Rattner)
The Menorah (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Gargoyles (Abraham Rattner)
The Crown of the High Priest (Abraham Rattner)
Central Panel, Design Drawing in Line (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Final Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Loop Measurements Layout, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Landscape with Figures (Abraham Rattner, 1966)
Loop Synagogue Line Drawings (Abraham Rattner)
The Moon (Abraham Rattner)
The Moon (Abraham Rattner)
The Shin Motif and Spiral (Abraham Rattner)
The Tablets of Moses (Abraham Rattner)
Loop Window, Left Panel, Bottom (Abraham Rattner)
Temptations on Saint Anthony (Abraham Rattner, 1942)
Study for the Butcher (Abraham Rattner, 1966)
Sheet of Studies (Abraham Rattner)
The Fight #21 (Abraham Rattner)
The Pier No. 4 (Abraham Rattner, 1950)
Loop Synagogue Line Drawings (Abraham Rattner)
Tree of Life (Abraham Rattner)
Study--Tree of Life, Twelve Tribes of Israel, Flames of Fire (Abraham Rattner)
The Flames of Fire (Abraham Rattner)
Window Cleaner (Abraham Rattner)
The Tablets of the Law (Abraham Rattner)
Untitled (Window Cleaner) (Abraham Rattner, 1968)
Untitled (Abraham Rattner)
Study of Color, Panel A, Chicago Loop Synagogue Window (Abraham Rattner)
Children Climbing Fence (Abraham Rattner)
Seven Elements (Abraham Rattner)
Ein Hod to Tel Aviv (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Final Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
In the Mirror No. II (Abraham Rattner, 1962)
Study for Final Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
The Planets and Sun (Abraham Rattner)
God's Light (Abraham Rattner)
Temptations of Saint Anthony #5 (Abraham Rattner, 1945)
Study for Final Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Study Composition Six Million (Abraham Rattner)
Ethrog Shofar (Abraham Rattner)
Panel A, study for Stained Glass Window, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Design Layout in Line, Panel B (Abraham Rattner)
Sheet of Studies (for Stained Glass at Chicago Synagogue) (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Final Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Hebraic Letters of the Shema Panel and Dec. Motifs of Panel (Abraham Rattner)
Montauk Point No. 1 (Abraham Rattner, 1945)
Fringes (Abraham Rattner)
Design for an Altar (Abraham Rattner)
Highway, USA with Henry Miller (Abraham Rattner)
Study for the Bride (Abraham Rattner)
Study for The Eternal Light and the Ark (Abraham Rattner)
The Shofar (Abraham Rattner)
Study for The Star of David, Right Panel (Abraham Rattner)
Rocce del Capo VII (Abraham Rattner, 1961)
Sheet of Studies (for Stained Glass at Chicago Synagogue) (Abraham Rattner)
Sky Forms (Abraham Rattner)
Palm of Shins (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Window Cleaner (Abraham Rattner)
Echod (Abraham Rattner)
In the Valley of the Dry Bones (study for "Ezekiel") (Abraham Rattner)
The Planets and Sun (Abraham Rattner)
Window Cleaner (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Placement of Twelve Tribes of Israel (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Gargoyles and Fire (Abraham Rattner)
The Shofar (Abraham Rattner)
Study for The Menorah (Abraham Rattner)
Left Side Panel, Design Drawing in Line (Abraham Rattner)
Empire State Building (Abraham Rattner, ca. 1940s)
Elevation from Exterior (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
The Planets and Sun (Abraham Rattner)
Stained Glass Detail Study for Loop (Abraham Rattner)
Sea Storm II (Rocce del Capo) (Abraham Rattner, 1961)
Layout with Dimension Notations (Abraham Rattner)
Sea-Land Scape with Rocks and Figures (Abraham Rattner, 1947)
Study--Palm of Shins, 12 Tribes of Israel, Tree of Life (Abraham Rattner)
The Menorah (Abraham Rattner)
Design Layout in Line, Panel A (Abraham Rattner)
Preface (Abraham Rattner)
Right Side Panel, Design Drawing in Line (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Panel A (Sheet #5) (Abraham Rattner)
Tree of Life (Abraham Rattner)
Design Layout with Dimension Notations (Abraham Rattner)
Untitled (Abraham Rattner)
The Tablets of the Law (Abraham Rattner)
Gargoyles No. 3 (Abraham Rattner, 1959)
The Shin Motif and Spiral (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Loop Window, Left Panel, Top and Center (Abraham Rattner)
The Star of David (Abraham Rattner)
Winter near Washington, USA Trip with Henry Miller (Abraham Rattner)
Window Layout (Abraham Rattner)
The Scroll (Abraham Rattner)
The Tablets of the Law (Abraham Rattner)
The Tablets of the Law (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Final Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Final Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Preliminary Study Central Panel (Abraham Rattner)
Around the Bend, USA with Henry Miller (Abraham Rattner)
Creation--Man with Wings and Mask (Abraham Rattner, 1950)
Stained Glass Wall Design for a Chicago Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
The Scroll (Abraham Rattner)
Illinois (Abraham Rattner, 1940)
Window Cleaner (Abraham Rattner)
Moses . . . "I Am" (Abraham Rattner, 1958)
Study for Final Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Symbol of Tribe Reuben (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Gargoyles (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Study of Color, Panel B, Chicago Loop Synagogue Window (Abraham Rattner)
Exterior Study with Dimension Notations, Chicago Cathedral (Abraham Rattner)
Homage �� Goya No. 2 (Composition in Red with Three Figures) (Abraham Rattner, 1963)
The Shema (Abraham Rattner)
Star of David (Abraham Rattner)
Star of David (Abraham Rattner)
Stained Glass Detail Study for Loop (Abraham Rattner)
The Menorah (Abraham Rattner)
Pier No. VII (Abraham Rattner, 1950)
They Divided His Garments among Them (Abraham Rattner, 1973)
Port of Dieppe (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Symbol of One of Twelve Tribes of Israel (Abraham Rattner)
Untitled (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Final Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
"O Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek/To be consoled, as to console,/To be understood as to understand;/To be loved as to love./For it is in giving that we receive;/It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;/It is in dying that we are born to eternal life."--Saint Francis of Assisi. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. (Abraham Rattner, 1954)
Loop-Central Panel II, A and B (Abraham Rattner)
The Tablets of the Law (Abraham Rattner)
Palm of Shins (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
Study for The Flames of Fire (Abraham Rattner)
Seashore, Sky and Sea (Abraham Rattner, 1930)
Santa Barbara Pier (Abraham Rattner, 1943)
Near Dyon (Abraham Rattner)
The Crown of the High Priest (Abraham Rattner)
New York Skyline (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Final Design of Stained Glass, Chicago Loop Synagogue (Abraham Rattner)
The Tablets of the Law (Abraham Rattner)
Study for Gargoyles (Abraham Rattner)
The Menorah (Abraham Rattner)
Seven Elements (Abraham Rattner)