Study for Murder
<p>Jared French, <em>Study for Murder</em>, 1942. Graphite pencil and colored pencil on paper, sheet: 20 1/8 × 15 5/8 in. (51.1 × 39.7 cm) Image: 16 11/16 × 13 3/16 in. (42.4 × 33.5 cm) Mount: 22 × 18 in. (55.9 × 45.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jack Shear 2022.242</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1942
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20 1/8 × 15 5/8 in. (51.1 × 39.7 cm) Image: 16 11/16 × 13 3/16 in. (42.4 × 33.5 cm) Mount: 22 × 18 in. (55.9 × 45.7 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Jared French
Artist
Painting
Jared French was an American painter and printmaker known for his precisely rendered figural compositions and social realist imagery. Working primarily in egg tempera and lithography from the 1930s onward, French developed a distinctive style combining classical draftsmanship with modernist formal restraint. His postwar paintings often depicted isolated or grouped figures in austere interior and landscape settings, marked by cool tonality and psychological distance. French's technical mastery and restrained emotional register positioned his work apart from both abstract expressionism and the more gestural realism of his contemporaries.
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- Jared French
- Year
- 1942
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20 1/8 × 15 5/8 in. (51.1 × 39.7 cm) Image: 16 11/16 × 13 3/16 in. (42.4 × 33.5 cm) Mount: 22 × 18 in. (55.9 × 45.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1942-167968
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified