L'Chayim To Israel Collector Plate

 L' Chayim to Israel Collector Plate by Alton Tobey.

This is a Beautiful Plate issued by the Judaic Heritage Society. The artwork is by Alton S. Tobey. The Plate is a series of vignettes of Historical events to commemorate Israel's 30th Anniversary of Independence. 

Plate measures approximately 10.5". Plate number 984.

Alton Stanley Tobey  was born in 1914 in Middletown, CT, and in 1934 won a scholarship to the Yale University School of Fine Arts where he also taught for awhile. Alton Stanley Tobey resided for most of his life in  New York.

Alton Tobey was described as "a muralist, portraitist, and illustrator whose renderings of famous events and faces hang in museums, libraries, public buildings, corporate offices, and private collections."

Tobey is ranked by the Artist's Trade Union of Russia as "One of the world's-best artists of the last four centuries". 

Referring to the dichotomy between his realist works and his curvilinears and other modernist works, Alton Tobey once said, "I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration." 

Alton Tobey died on January 4, 2005