Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall brought memory, Jewish heritage, and imaginative color together in paintings that move freely between village life, love, religious imagery, and fantasy. His figures often seem to float or tilt within compressed, dreamlike spaces, while bold color gives emotional weight to familiar motifs.

Chagall worked across painting, drawing, printmaking, murals, ceramics, theatre design, and stained glass. In the Homer lithographs and floral still lifes represented in this gallery, lyrical line and saturated color turn literary subjects and everyday forms into poetic scenes.