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  • Painting (1929-47)
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Theodore Roszak

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(1907-1981) First generation New York abstract expressionist artist

sculptor, painter, draughtsman

Theodore Roszak

  • Biography
  • Exhibitions
  • Drawing
  • Painting (1929-47)
  • Construction (1932-45)
  • Sculpture (1945-69)
  • Public Commission (1955-78)
  • Photogram (1932-41)
  • Lithography
  • Bibliography
  • Contact
 Steel  42 x 54 inches  Collection: Theodore Roszak Estate

Iron Throat, 1959

"It breaks out again in a violent cry in the tremendously dynamic "Iron Throat" of the American Roszak, a great eroded skull in steel plate and tubing, its mouth open in an enormous shout-an image, one cannot help but think, of the power of communications: all voice, but dead within."

- W.Norris Clark on "New Images of Man" exhibition at MOMA NY in 1959. (America National Catholic Weekly Review vol. CII No.8)

Exhibition History: 

Pierre Matisse Gallery, NYC, year.

"New Images of Man" Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art & MoMA, NYC, 1959.

Venice Biennale (30), Italy, 1960.

 Darmstadt, Germany, 1963.

Museum of 20th Century Art, Vienna, Austria, 1964.

Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, 1969.

University of Art Museum, University of California, LA, 1970.

Iron Throat, 1959

"It breaks out again in a violent cry in the tremendously dynamic "Iron Throat" of the American Roszak, a great eroded skull in steel plate and tubing, its mouth open in an enormous shout-an image, one cannot help but think, of the power of communications: all voice, but dead within."

- W.Norris Clark on "New Images of Man" exhibition at MOMA NY in 1959. (America National Catholic Weekly Review vol. CII No.8)

Exhibition History: 

Pierre Matisse Gallery, NYC, year.

"New Images of Man" Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art & MoMA, NYC, 1959.

Venice Biennale (30), Italy, 1960.

 Darmstadt, Germany, 1963.

Museum of 20th Century Art, Vienna, Austria, 1964.

Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, 1969.

University of Art Museum, University of California, LA, 1970.

 Steel  42 x 54 inches  Collection: Theodore Roszak Estate

Steel

42 x 54 inches

Collection: Theodore Roszak Estate

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