Grant Park, Chicago
<p>Created during the worst years of the Great Depression, this print by Charles Turzak shows a syncopated arrangement of newspapers covering a group of sleeping homeless men. Chicago was one of the hardest-hit cities, enduring high unemployment rates. Instead of depicting Chicago monuments or the park’s landscape, Turzak focused on the indigent men who often slept in the park, near the city’s center of culture and commerce.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1931
- Dimensions
- Image: 30.7 × 23.5 cm (12 1/8 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 39.7 × 30.7 cm (15 11/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Charles Turzak
Artist
Mixed Media
Charles Turzak was an American artist, known primarily for his modernist woodblock prints, particularly works depicting American historical subjects, including his best-known work Abraham Lincoln: Biography in Woodcuts (1933).
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The Dancers
1939 · Woodcut in black on ivory Japanese paper
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Under the Bridge
1934 · Woodcut on paper
Lincoln Park
1933 · Woodcut in black on ivory Japanese paper
Abraham Lincoln: A Biography in Woodcuts
1933 · Slim volume with 36 woodcuts on French folded bible stock bound and hand stitched, with black cover
Oak Street Beach
1933 · Woodcut in black on ivory Japanese paper
Record
Verified by Watts Index- Artist
- Charles Turzak
- Year
- 1931
- Dimensions
- Image: 30.7 × 23.5 cm (12 1/8 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 39.7 × 30.7 cm (15 11/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1931-084476
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified