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Passover - Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
Passover - Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
Passover - Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?

Passover - Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?

Artist Samuil Rubashkin (Russian, 1906-1975)
Date1973
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsStretcher: 100 × 80.2 cm (39 3/8 × 31 9/16 in.)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineNorton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union
Object number1991.0896
Collections
Exhibition History- Soviet Nonconformist Art from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, 03/06/1995-05/27/1995, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ - Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, 03/17/2001-06/11/2001, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH - Censored and Sanctioned: Soviet Art of the Cold War, 1956-1986, 10/03/2002-06/19/2004, Grace Museum, Abilene, TX

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