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Ruth Schloss
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli painter and illustrator who mainly depicted neglected scenes such as arabs”. Today it says “israeli painter and illustrator”.
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Ruth Schloss ( ; 22 November 1922 – 2013) was an Israeli painter and illustrator who mainly depicted neglected scenes such as Arabs , transition camps , children and women at eye-level as egalitarian, socialist view via realism style painting and drawing.1 Schloss became Israeli painting's sensitive, conscious, remembering eye.2
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israeli painter and illustrator who mainly depicted neglected scenes such as arabs
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israeli painter and illustrator
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