Man Playing War Games at Table
<p>Seymour Rosofsky was among the first generation of post–World War II SAIC graduates and was linked to the Monster Roster group. Using Chicago as a constant backdrop in his compositions, he created a body of work that is largely autobiographical. He was a dedicated printmaker and made dozens of lithographs, often printing them himself.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1960
- Dimensions
- Image: 37 × 51 cm (14 5/8 × 20 1/8 in.); Sheet: 50 × 65.5 cm (19 11/16 × 25 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Seymour Rosofsky
Artist
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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.
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1978 · Pastel on pink wove paper
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1978 · Oil on canvas
The Artist Unmasked
1974 · Black Conté crayon with touches of stumping on white wove paper
The Couple
1973 · Color lithograph on white wove paper
Man in Cake with Top Hat
1971 · Watercolor, with pen and black ink and touches of gouache, heightened with white gouache, on off-white wove paper
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- Seymour Rosofsky
- Year
- 1960
- Dimensions
- Image: 37 × 51 cm (14 5/8 × 20 1/8 in.); Sheet: 50 × 65.5 cm (19 11/16 × 25 13/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1960-126390
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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