Christmas Eve Day!! Sunday, December 24, 2017, an oil painting by Polish born painter Esther Hamerman (1881-1977) A Secular Merry Christmas, 2017.

Christmas Eve Day!! Sunday, December 24, 2017, an oil painting by Polish born painter Esther Hamerman (1881-1977) - A Secular Merry Christmas, 2017. 

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(Christmas Celebration) is an oil painting on stretched canvas, done around 1945. The canvas measures 29-1/4 x 20-1/4". This painting is signed in pigment in the lower left corner. 

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Esther Hamerman was a true primitive, she started painting at age 60 at the urging of her daughter. After 40 years living in Vienna, Austria the family, who were Jewish, moved to the US to escape the Nazis in 1938.

Hamerman draws on her memories, possibly Vienna or her native Poland, to paint this Christmas scene, with a Santa Claus and a decorated tree. Skiers and skaters, children and adults move through the foreground randomly, changing sizes along with the buildings, a bus, streetlights etc. to balance the composition and activate the situation.

Hamerman, like most primitives, makes up her own rules - and they work!

Tonight is the night children around the world, including grown ones, have been anticipating. Please take a moment to consider them in your Christmas.

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