About this artwork
Trained at the School of the Art Institute, Michael Hurson spent the bulk of his career in New York. In the 1980s he created a group of large portrait drawings, conflating Cubist fracturing of space with comedic graphic conventions. This portrait of the Chicago collector Will Hokin was first exhibited at the museum in 1984.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Michael Hurson
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Title
- Portrait of W.H.
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1977–1987
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Medium
- Pastel and charcoal with stumping and watercolor, squared in blue pencil, on ivory wove paper
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Dimensions
- Sight: 103 × 63.3 cm (40 9/16 × 24 15/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Rebecca Donelson and Robert Blattberg
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Reference Number
- 1998.94
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