Chameleon
1975 · Black ballpoint pen, with traces of graphite, on cream wove paper
42.5 × 32.5 cm (16 3/4 × 12 13/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Theodore Roszak
1907–1981
Poznan, Poland
SculptureAbstract Art
Representation
None documented
12
Institutional Exhibitions
47
Works in Collection
57
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2
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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910�1980
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969–1970
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The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Fifty Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962
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Theodore Roszak was a Polish-American sculptor and painter. He was born in Posen, Prussia, now Poznań, Poland, as a son of Polish parents, and emigrated to the United States at the age of two. From 1925 to 1926 he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, In 1930 he won the Logan Medal of the Arts, then moved to New York City to take classes at the National Academy of Design with George Luks and at Columbia University, where he studied logic and philosophy.
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