Artwork Details
88.26 H x 114.3 W cm (Image) 119.38 H x 148.59 W x 12.7 D cm (Framed)
Accession NumberJames E. Roberts Fund and Martha Delzell Memorial Fund
CopyrightAmerican Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
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Gallery Labels
- A pensive pianist supports her head with one hand—a melancholic pose that has symbolized artistic genius since the Renaissance. With the other, she strikes a piano’s keys as the gramophone at left records her efforts.
- Music and technology are dominant themes in the work of Roszak, who was a trained violinist and a mechanic.
- Roszak studied in Europe from 1929 until 1931. During this period, the artist’s style changed radically as he encountered contemporary avant-garde movements. Here Roszak combines the geometric vocabulary of Cubism and the dreamlike imagery of Surrealism.
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