was a founding member of the Art Friends Society (AFS, Jami’yat Asdiqa’ al-Fen). He was primarily a landscape painter, and painted many landscapes of Iraq in the realism style, using shading and composition to suggest time periods. A prolific painter of oils, the majority of his works are now in private hands. A small collection of his work is hung in The Pioneers Museum, Baghdad, but many of these works were looted in 2003. He was also the first modern Iraqi artist to paint a mural in a public building - at the entrance to the Cinema Royal in Baghdad. Very little is known about his early life and career. It was only when the researcher and art historian, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra investigated the history of art education in the city of Amarah 1917-1958 that his name was found in the Register of Teachers in the school of Qal'at Saleh for 1916. Work He painted scenes of everyday life in Iraq and landscapes, especially of area around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. A collection of his work is in The Pioneers Museum, Baghdad. Select list of paintings A Military Encampment on the Banks of the Euphrates, 1936 View of Baghdad, date unknown See also Iraqi art Islamic art List of Iraqi artists List of painters References Parts of this article have been translated from associated article on the Arabic Wikipedia. External links Abdul Qadir Al Rassam Dijla at Sunset* *Modern Art Archive – reproductions of artworks many of which were destroyed or looted in 2003 and cannot be found in any other collection 1882 births 1952 deaths 20th-century Iraqi painters Artists from Baghdad Realist artists