A Glass Menagerie
The complex and somewhat surreal composition of both similar and disparate objects is signed lower right on a crumpled scrap of paper bizarrely pinned to the wood shelf. The primary theme, as the title implies, is animal form 19th century Sandwich Glass pomade jars and other glass animals along with a glass eye and an ripening banana.
Aaron Bohrod (1907-1992) was a notable American Social Realist artist also renowned for his mastery the trompe-l’œil painting technique, a term that translates from French to English as ‘optical illusion’ or ‘to deceive the eye.’ He initially gained recognition as an artist for his social realism genre scenes in the 1930s. After the war, he transitioned to the trompe l’oeil style of which he is an obvious master.
Board measures 12 x 24 with a framed size of 22.5 x 34.75 inches
