The Educational Alliance / Ernest Rubenstein Gallery presents a group exhibition, Picturing the Lower East Side.

The Lower East Side has been a source of inspiration for artists for over a century. This exhibit presents a wide range of artists working in a variety of styles who are each enthralled with painting the city and street life of New York. Artists include Anneli Arms, Violet Baxter, Lynda Caspe, Peter Colquhoun, Mryon Heise, Robert Feinland, Hortense Kassoy, Marion Lerner-Levine, Patricia Melvin, Kate O’Toole, Vincent Pinto, Jacqueline Sferra-Rada, Phillip Sherrod, Philip Southern.

The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors was established in 1940. Original members included Adolph Gottlieb and Louise Nevelson, (alumni of the Educational Alliance.) The first group exhibit was in the “American Art Today” Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1940. Artists’ groups have been a vital part of 20th century American Art. This group fought for the independence of different kinds of creativity, and made it possible for artists devoted to styles of all kinds to have public exposure by means of exhibitions throughout the country, and encouraged intellectual exchanges among artists and a special sense of camaraderie and spiritual community.” The Federation continues this mission today, sixty years later.