He was viewed as a successful mentor by those who knew him : As a teenager , Rosenblatt apprenticed in the studio of Ben Wilson under the Works in Progress Administration . Wilson had a major impact on him , Rosenblatt would later say of Wilson " I saw that he was thoughtful and deeply sincere in his work and that he would be supportive of my becoming a painter . " He would keep in contact with Wilson for 63 years until Wilson died in 2005 . Rosenblatt 's painting was influenced not only by Wilson but also by painters such as Georges Braque , Paul Cézanne , and Pablo Picasso . The content of his paintings was influenced by Judaism and Marxism . Many of his paintings were political focusing on war and The Holocaust . Another major theme of his paintings were of mothers and their children , which would mirror his scientific interest in maternal behavior as a scientist . For example , in his painting " Mother and older Child , " both of his subjective and scientific perspectives of mother-child relationships are expressed , evoking both discomfort and comfort in the viewer . He never became a professional painter , but Rutgers University held a show in the late 1990s for 56 of his paintings
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Jay S. Rosenblatt