and the sun of Israel. My motif is always the non-static landscape with all its contrasts: the rays of dawn, the stillness of the day's heat, the evening's twilight, radiance and dimness, wind and rain, a night's storm." Avniel's manipulations of light and colour share much with those of compatriot artists Shimshon Holzman and Joseph Kossonogi. Selected exhibitions 2004: Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel, University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa (online catalogue) 1965: Mordechai Avniel Retrospective, Haifa Municipality Museum of Modern Art, Haifa 1964: Galerie Synthèse, Paris 1962: New York University, New York 1961: Rina Gallery of Modern Art, Jerusalem 1960: Galerie Intime, Montréal 1959: Opening Show, Gallery Moos, Toronto (with Pablo Picasso, Serge Poliakoff, Marc Chagall, Hans Erni and Paul-Émile Borduas) (1959 gallery invitation). 1959: Pulitzer Art Galleries, New York 1957: Chemerinsky Gallery, Tel Aviv 1956: Museum of Modern Art, Haifa 1955: Nora Gallery, Jerusalem 1954: Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv 1954: National Museum, Washington 1953: Shore Gallery, Boston 1952: Katz Gallery, Tel Aviv 1941: Beit Pevsner, Haifa Selected collections Haifa museum of Art Tel Aviv Museum Israel Museum, Jerusalem Boston Public Library Brooklyn Museum Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge Hartford Atheneum Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC New York Public Library Philadelphia Museum of Art Baltimore Museum of Art Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco References Catalogues Ayal, Avishay, and Yoram Bar-Gal. Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel [exhibition catalogue]. Haifa: University of Haifa Art Gallery, 2004. Jaffé, Hans Ludwig. Sea of Galilee: Watercolors [portfolio of colour plates]. Tel Aviv: M. Avniel, 1963. Mordechai Avniel: The Israeli Landscape Painter [catalogue]. Tel Aviv: United Artists, [1966]. Mordecai Avniel: Retrospective Exhibition, November–December 1965 [exhibition catalogue]. Haifa: Museum of Modern Art, 1965. Tadmor, Gabriel (ed). Mordecai Avniel: Paintings, Woodcuts, Small Sculptures [portfolio]. Haifa: M. Avniel, [197-?]. Twelve Israeli Painters [portfolio of colour plates]. Tel Aviv: Lion Printers, 1965. External links Israeli Art Centre (Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Mordechai Avniel) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (collection of woodcuts and etchings) Selected works can be viewed here. 1900 births 1989 deaths People from Svietlahorsk District People from Bobruysky Uyezd Belarusian Jews Jews from the Russian Empire Soviet Jews Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Jews in Mandatory Palestine Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent Jewish painters Israeli male painters