$350 framed, $250 unframed

This artwork is based on a photo of my husband’s grandmother, Celia Dropkin. Her sexually explicit poetry expanded possibilities for the depiction of relationships between men and women in modern Yiddish poetry. Born in White Russia (Belarus) in 1887, Dropkin joined her husband in New York in 1912. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Dropkin’s poems appeared in avant-garde Yiddish literary publications. Her themes - sex, love and death – shocked her contemporaries but her poetry has recently inspired a new generation of women. Later in life she became a painter in oils and watercolors and studied at The Art Students League in NYC. She died in 1956.