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[[Image:Roth_Oil.jpg|thumb|260px|right|Leo Roth, ''Flute Players'', oil on canvas, 1967]]

'''Monk''' is a [[television show]] that debuted in [[2002]]. It is produced by the [[USA Network]], and is about an [[obsessive compulsive]] detective named Adrian Monk. [[Tony Shalhoub]] stars as detective Monk, and serves as the show's [[executive producer]].

'''Leo Roth''' (1914-2002) (variant name '''Lior Roth''') was an [[Israeli]] painter, born in 1914 in [[Poland]]. In 1920, Roth moved to [[Germany]] and, in 1933, immigrated to [[Eretz Israel]]. He studied at the [[École des Beaux-Arts]] in [[Paris]] and completed [[frescoes]] in [[Italy]] and [[France]] in the 1950s. Roth first settled in [[Tel Aviv]], then moved to [[Kinneret (kibbutz)|Kibbutz Kinneret]], then finally to [[Afikim (kibbutz)|Kibbutz Afikim]] where he remained until his death. He was the Director of the Art Academy of the Kibbutzim. In 1959, he was awarded the Jordan Valley Prize for Painting. Roth exhibited in the United States, Israel, Mexico, Spain, Holland, Sweden, and Denmark. He died in 2002.

Roth's work was influenced by [[Cubism]] and bears much in common with the work of compatriot painter [[Naftali Bezem]]. His colourful canvases are rife with biblical imagery and representations of early Israeli pioneer culture.

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==Selected exhibitions==

Monk was originally a detective of the San Francisco Police Department. After the murder of his wife, a case which he could not solve, Monk became obsessive compulsive, refusing to leave his house for 3 years. Monk's personal nurse, Sharona Fleming played by Bitty Schram, helped get Adrian back on his feet. Eventually, Monk started his own private detective agency, helping the police solve difficult cases. Police captain Leland Stottlemeyer, played by Ted Levine, and and Lieutenant Randall Disher, played by Jason Gray-Stanford have are personal friends of Monk.

* 2000: ''Chaim Atar Art Museum'', Ein Harod, Israel: ''The Works of Leo Roth: An Exhibition''

==ExternalSelected linkcollections==

* ''Israel Museum'', Jerusalem

* [http://www.usanetwork.com/series/monk/ USA's official Monk page]

* ''Museum of Art Ein Harod'', Israel

==References==

* Bar-Or, Galia & Dvora Liss. ''Leo Roth: Shepherd of Longings'' [exhibition catalogue]. Kiriat Bialik: Ach, 2000.

* Roth, Lior. ''Reproductions in Colour and Black & White'' (Reproduktsyot bi-tsevaim uve-shahor-lavan) [portfolio of plates]. [1973].

==External links==

* [http://www.imj.org.il/eng/resources/israeli-ac/ Israeli Art Centre] (Israel Museum, Jerusalem - [http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/sname2_a.asp?artist=2472&list=R Leo Roth])

* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/702526/leo-roth.html Artnet.com] (Leo Roth)

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[[Category:Israeli artists|Roth, Leo]]

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