Malach

Jerome Kaplan was a Philadelphia artist who served as the department chair and professor of the Printmaking Department at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, formerly the Philadelphia College of Art. Kaplan was an active member of the Print Club of Philadelphia. In 1961, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship as a result of his work, “A Portfolio of White House Etchings”, presented to President Jimmy Carter. After Kaplan died in 1997, his wife Anne was faced with the task of organizing his work. This led to the founding of the Senior Artists Initiative (SAI) in 1998, a Philadelphia based organization that educates senior artists about the management and preservation of their estate and their artistic legacy.

The title of this work, Malach, or malakh, means “angel” or “messenger” in Hebrew. Kaplan’s work can be found in museum collections both nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the British Museum.