Child Drinking (Child in High Chair)

Seymour RosofskyWW-1944-055313

1944·Black and colored chalks, over charcoal, with wet wiping and erasing and brush and gray wash on tan wove paper·82.3 × 63.5 cm (32 7/16 × 25 in.)

<p>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.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1944
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.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Seymour Rosofsky

Artist

Seymour Rosofsky

Drawing

Seymour Rosofsky was an American painter whose postwar work engaged with figuration and urban subject matter. Active from the 1940s through the early 1980s, he developed a distinctive approach to representing the American landscape and its inhabitants.

Chicago, IL, USA

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