Mayer Kirshenblatt is a 91 year old self taught painter residing in Toronto, who has been painting for close to twenty years. His subject matter is mostly the life in the Jewish shtetl in southern Poland where he grew up until emigrating to Canada in 1934. The painting pictured above is titled The Purim Play: Krakow Wedding. Read more here . Also note that the terms naïve art, or primitive art are never mentioned in the article.
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