The Survivor

Prints and Drawings

1936

George Grosz
American, born Germany, 1893-1959

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: George Grosz
Title: The Survivor
Place: Germany (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.: 1936
Medium: Pen and brush and black ink on off-white laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, below image: "Grosz 1936"
Dimensions: 48.5 × 63.3 cm (19 1/8 × 24 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Reference Number: 1939.311

James Watrous, The Craft of Old Master Drawings (Madison, 1957).
William Squires, Art, Experience and Criticism (Needham Heights, 1997).
Robert Hankes, The Scars of World War, II (2001).

New York, Association of American Artists, 1946.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Old and New,” 1946, p. 18, cat. 29, pl. XXXVI, cat. by Carl O. Schniewind.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, “Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of George Grosz,” 1954.
Kansas City, Mo., The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, n.d.
Pasadena, Calif., Pasadena Art Institute, n.d.
San Francisco, Calif., San Francisco Museum of Art, n.d.

Sold by the Maynard Walker Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1939.

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