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“The Art of Marc Klionsky: Shaping a Three World Condition from Minsk to New York,” a lecture presented by Georgetown University professor and author Ori Z Soltes on the life and work of Marc Klionsky.

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Born in the Soviet Union, the painter took on everything and everybody from Dizzy Gillespie to New York street life to the Holocaust. When will he get his full due?

Klionsky, who died last month at 90, was the youngest artist to have his paintings exhibited in the renowned Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow.

Marc Klionsky, a Soviet-Jewish émigré to New York who gained worldwide prominence painting portraits of such eminent figures as Golda Meir and Elie Wiesel, has died.

In the weeks after he arrived in New York City 43 years ago from the then-Soviet Union, where he painted portraits of communist leaders during the day and created artworks with Jewish themes secretly in his Leningrad apartment, at night, acclaimed artist

KLIONSKY–Marc, of New York passed away on September 17, age 90. An internationally-renowned artist who immigrated