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Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

Date1984
Label TextIn the mid 1970s Rothenberg and many of her young peers turned from minimalist training to explore personal imagery and expressive techniques. Rothenberg resited detailed representations, preferring to keep her motif as suggestive and uncertain as the style in which it was rendered. The person in this drawing is reduced to a compressed, truncated silhouette, evokin anxious isolation. The piece has a very tactile quality, and vigorous erasing has pulled loose countless feathery strands.
Object number85.58
ProvenanceWillard Gallery, Inc., New York City; Purchased with funds from the estate of Mary Arrington Small, April 5, 1985
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Freeing the Figure, December 2, 2009 - July 3, 2011 Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, "Susan Rothenberg: Prints and Drawings", 8/22-10/25/98; Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1/13-3/24/99; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 3/21-5/24/99 (8/1998 - 5/1999) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Collection Highlights: 1945 To The Present", September 12, 1996 - June 1, 1997. (09/12/1996 - 06/01/1997)Published References"Selected Works." Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, p. 132. Seattle Art Museum. “Acquisitions.” Seattle Art Museum Calendar (June 1985): p. 3.
Credit LineMary Arrington Small Estate Acquisition Fund
Dimensions50 1/8 x 38 1/4 in. (127.3 x 97.1 cm)
MediumCharcoal on paper
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