Whaler of Nantucket
Catalogue
- Year
- 1952
- Medium
- Steel
- Dimensions
- 80 × 115.6 × 63.5 cm (34 1/2 × 45 1/2 × 25 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Theodore Roszak
Artist
Sculpture
Theodore Roszak was a Polish-American sculptor and painter. He was born in Posen, Prussia, now Poznań, Poland, as a son of Polish parents, and emigrated to the United States at the age of two. From 1925 to 1926 he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, In 1930 he won the Logan Medal of the Arts, then moved to New York City to take classes at the National Academy of Design with George Luks and at Columbia University, where he studied logic and philosophy.
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- Theodore Roszak
- Year
- 1952
- Medium
- Steel
- Dimensions
- 80 × 115.6 × 63.5 cm (34 1/2 × 45 1/2 × 25 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1952-114629
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified