Ezra’s work is defined by its folk art sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.
Mrs. Noah Smith and Family
Attributed to Ezra Ames American, 1768–1836 Copy after Ralph Earl American, 1751–1801
Syrian Bunker Overlooking Kibbutz Ha'on, End of Six Day War
Micha Bar-Am Israeli, born 1930
Little Landscape at the Seaside (Kleine Landschaft am Meer)
Gerhard Richter German, born 1932
Rain at Ushibori (Ame no Ushibori)
Kawase Hasui 川瀬 巴水 Japanese, 1883-1957
I Am On My Vacation, New York
Irving Penn American, 1917–2009
I Do I Have I Am
Saul Steinberg American, born Romania, 1914-1999
Villa Am Strande 1
Lyonel Feininger American, 1871-1956
Dish
Germany, Frankfurt
I Am Don Juan Tenorio
Manuel Manilla Mexican, 1830-c.1900
Love in Rain, Snow and Hail (Ame yuki arare ni yosuru koi)
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿 Japanese, c.1753-1806
Rain the Morning After in the Pleasure Quarter (Seiro kinuginu no ame)
Eishosai Choki Japanese, active c. 1790s-early 1800s
I am in K, and I am in T
Alexis Jean Fournier American, born France, 1865-1948
Omiya in Rain (Ame no Omiya)
The Egyptian Israeli Peace Talks: portrait of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat smoking pipe before talks in Ismailia, Cairo
Damaged road-signs to be replaced, Sinai
Fatah women prisoners looking through barred window, Neve Tirza, Israel
Portrait of Black Hebrew mother holding baby in crowd, Mount Zion, Israel
José Guadalupe Posada Mexican, 1852-1913
Daniel Webster
Thomas Ball (American, 1819–1911) Cast by James Tyler Ames (American, 1810–1883) Chicopee, Massachusetts
Moira Shearer in 'I Am a Camera'
Angus McBean Welsh, 1904–1990