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Theodore Roszak

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Theodore J. Roszak (1907 - 1981) was active/lived in New York / Poland.  Theodore Roszak is known for Abstract sculpture and drawing.

Sculptor, lithographer, and painter Theodore Roszak began his career as a painter but is best known for welded sculptures of brass and bronze that are tied to Constructivism and the ideas of the Bauhaus School. His signatures sculptures are pitted and scratched in texture and in style are abstract, often figural, and sometimes surreal in appearance. Some critics have compared them to gestural painting of the Abstract Expressionists. His themes combine myth and dismay with the contemporary world.

Some of the works for which he is best known are "Spectre of Kitty Hawk," 1946-47, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and "Migrant," 1950, University of Illinois). The sculptures are projections that seem menacing and wanting to twist free from their cores. "Thin members are combined with broader metallic sheets in open construction, as if Roszak were adding to a Constructivist armature a menacing and probing content" (Baigell 309).

Roszak was born in Poznan, Poland in 1907 and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6377 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Theodore Roszak


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt Association
  • American Artists Congress
  • Chicago Society of Artists
Art Teacher
  • Charles Hawthorne
  • George Luks
Art School
  • Cape Cod School of Art, Student
  • Columbia University Art Department, Student
  • National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Bakkom Photo Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota (1)
  • Sara Roby Foundation
Added Description
  • Abstraction Specialty
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
  • Polish
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Chicago Society of Artists-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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