Packet 4: Tossup 19

This artist arranged the twenty-two Hebrew letters in a small red square above his signature in some works, including an ink portrait of Martin Luther King shouting. The hand of God grasps abstract blue-and-purple fish in the midst of gray flames (-5[1])in this artist’s water-color Where Wast Thou?, which is based on Job. This artist and his wife Bernarda Bryson included Albert Einstein among Jewish immigrants arriving at Ellis Island (15[1])in their Jersey Homesteads mural. A judge salutes by a fasces-shaped light post (15[2]10[1])in (15[1])a painting by this artist whose foreground shows three men holding (*) lilies before (10[1])two open caskets; (10[7])that painting (10[1])is part of a 1932 (10[1])cycle (10[1]-5[1])by this artist (10[1])chronicling a (-5[1])controversial (-5[1])1927 (10[1])trial and execution. For 10 points, name this social realist artist of The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti. (-5[1])■END■ (10[2]0[16])

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