Description: The Mercury Gallery features the work of The Ten, American Expressionists including Joseph Solman, German Expressionists such as Karl Zerbe and noted architect Michael McKinnell.
And 20th and 21st Century American Expressionists
During the mid-1930s a group called The Ten emerged, including such notables as Joseph Solman, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Schanker, Ilya Bolotowsky and Ben-Zion. The Ten drove a resurgence of modernism and experimentalism in New York that grew during the years going forward. They came to define American Expressionism which offered a link between modernism and socially conscious art. Today the Mercury Gallery shows works from this era onward, including these artists along with others who share a sim
Ben-Zion Weinman (1895-1987) was the son of a Polish cantor and composer who raised him for the rabbinate. He became “Ben-Zion” in America after World War I because “to drag around two names is rather too difficult.” In 1983 he told an interviewer from the Archives of American Art about his discovery by the historic dealer J.B. Neumann.