Grant Park, Chicago

Prints and Drawings

1931/33

Charles Turzak
American, 1899-1986

Created during the worst years of the Great Depression, this print by Charles Turzak shows a syncopated arrangement of newspapers covering a group of sleeping homeless men. Chicago was one of the hardest-hit cities, enduring high unemployment rates. Instead of depicting Chicago monuments or the park’s landscape, Turzak focused on the indigent men who often slept in the park, near the city’s center of culture and commerce.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Charles Turzak
Title: Grant Park, Chicago
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1931–1933
Medium: Woodcut in black on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions: Image: 30.7 × 23.5 cm (12 1/8 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 39.7 × 30.7 cm (15 11/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Endowment
Reference Number: 1992.7

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