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Theater Row (#1)

A work made of etching and aquatint on white wove paper.

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  • A work made of etching and aquatint on white wove paper.

Date:

1968

Artist:

Roger Brown
American, 1941-1997

About this artwork

With Philip Hanson and Christina Ramberg, Roger Brown exhibited as part of the False Image—a group of younger artists influenced by the Hairy Who. Collectively, these groups were referred to as the Chicago Imagists, and they shared congruent ideas about making expressive, intensely personal art, and forming impressive collections of works by selftaught artists and flea-market objects that betray ingenious designs and inherent beauty despite being kitschy. Throughout his career, Brown was drawn to cinematic or voyeuristic images of Chicago, as this etching, developed in a graduate class with Vera Berdich, demonstrates.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Roger Brown

Title

Theater Row (#1)

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1968

Medium

Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 10 × 10 cm (3 15/16 × 3 15/16 in.); Sheet: 27.2 × 23.8 cm (10 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Buchbinder

Reference Number

1970.154

Extended information about this artwork

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