Bidspirit auction | ELIAS S. MANDEL, LITHOGRAPH

ELIAS S. MANDEL, LITHOGRAPH - This lot features a professionally framed lithograph by listed artist, Elias S. Mandel. Pencil signed and measures in frame, 14.75'' H x 12.5'' W. Painter, etcher, and lightographer Elias Grossman was born in Kobryn, Russia and emigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn, New York with his family in 1911. He studied at the Educational Alliance Art School; the Cooper Union; and the Art Students' League of New York. By the late 1920s, Grossman had become widely recognized for his etchings and engravings depicting New York and other American cities. In the 1930s and 1940s he traveled extensively; the etchings resulting from these travels depicted locations in southern Europe and the Holy Land.