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Child Drinking (Child in High Chair)

A work made of black and colored chalks, over charcoal, with wet wiping and erasing and brush and gray wash on tan wove paper.

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  • A work made of black and colored chalks, over charcoal, with wet wiping and erasing and brush and gray wash on tan wove paper.

Date:

1944/60

Artist:

Seymour Rosofsky
American, 1924-1981

About this artwork

After delaying his education to serve in the Second World War, Rosofsky renewed his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1946. Marked by featureless figures and confined space, his work from the 1950s has a monstrous quality. Rosofsky was influenced by the bleak postwar conditions he witnessed in Occupied Germany as well as the retrospectives of Edvard Munch, Alberto Giacometti, and others held at the Art Institute. His early interest in human frailty would continue throughout his career.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Seymour Rosofsky

Title

Child Drinking (Child in High Chair)

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Artist's working dates 1944–1960

Medium

Black and colored chalks, over charcoal, with wet wiping and erasing and brush and gray wash on tan wove paper

Dimensions

82.3 × 63.5 cm (32 7/16 × 25 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Joseph R. Shapiro

Reference Number

1960.38

Extended information about this artwork

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