Titles & Info
Trial and Turmoil
Color Woodcut, 1962 · Size TBD
A crowded, restless composition — figures crouch, gesture, and press in from every side around a central form wrapped in orange and white, arms raised as if caught mid-argument or mid-defense. Deep green foliage-like patterning fills the background, dense and tangled, closing the scene in rather than opening it up. The mood turns unmistakably infernal — heat, pressure, judgment — a moment of reckoning with no clear way out. Preparatory sketches for this piece appear at the bottom of the Sketches section of this archive.
Passover Ceremonial
Woodcut, 1960 · Size TBD
A tall, stacked composition of ritual objects — a cup, a bowl, a bone, bitter herbs, a burning candle — arranged in loose vertical sequence against dense black, each object rendered in the same spare white line. Reading almost like a visual inventory, the print moves the eye down the page the way a seder moves through its stages, object by object, gesture by gesture.
Let My People Go
Woodcut, 1960 · Size TBD
A confrontation rendered at full force — Moses, staff raised, faces down a kneeling figure as a winged angel sweeps overhead bearing a sword. Bold black-and-white contrasts and dense, patterned crosshatching give the scene the weight of prophecy, every figure caught in a moment of reckoning and demand.
Sisterhood
Color Woodcut, 1960 · Size TBD
Five figures rise together, arms lifted skyward in a shared gesture, radiating out like rays of a single form. Bold orange and black, fanning outward from a central figure, give the print a sense of collective strength — bodies distinct but moving as one. This image appeared on the cover of American Judaism, Vol. IX, No. 4, in 1960.
Lions of Judea (may have been a book cover)
Color Woodcut, 1962 · Size TBD
A menorah rises at center, its seven black arms fanned wide and topped with flame, flanked by two red lions standing on hind legs atop a strip of green. Symmetrical and emblematic, the print has the clean, graphic weight of an insignia — bold enough to have served as a book or publication cover, though the source hasn't yet been confirmed.
Communication
Color Woodcut, 1962 · 10 9/16 x 23 15/16"
A wide, radiating composition built from bursts of line — a starburst of white and gold rays sweeps across a dark ground, anchored by a strange, jointed instrument at its center, part antenna, part figure. Red squares and a distant cityscape sit at the far right, as if signal and structure are reaching toward each other across the space between them. Stan returned to this design six years later, recasting it as the wood-carved mural Communication (1968), on view in the Wood-Carved Murals section of this archive.