(1907-1981) First generation New York abstract expressionist artist
sculptor, painter, draughtsman
Charcoal on paper
21.25 x 16.5 in (54 x 41.9 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of the Theodore Roszak Estate (1983).
pencil on paper
11.7 x 8.7 inches (29.7 x 22 cm)
Collection: National Art Museum Warsaw
ink, gouache, and watercolor on paper
12.5 x 10.6 inches (31.8 x 27 cm)
Collection: National Art Museum Warsaw
Graphite on paper
9 1/4 x 11 1.4 inches (23.5 x 28.58 cm)
Collection: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. New Paltz, NY. Gift of Sara Jane Roszak (2004).
Graphite on Paper
3 1/2 x 4 1/ inches (8.89 x 11.43 cm)
Collection: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. New Paltz, NY. Gift of Sara Jane Roszak (2004).
pencil on paper
10.8 x 8.3 inches (27.4 x 21 cm)
Collection: National Museum of Art Warsaw
Charcoal on paper
12 x 9 1/8 in (30.5 x 23.1 cm)
Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (2002).
Graphite on paper
12 7/16 x 9 7/16 in (31.6 x 24 cm)
Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Collection (1989).
Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
11 x 7 15/16 inches (27.9 x 20.2 cm)
Collection: Worcester Art Museum, MA. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (1985).
Pochoir print on paper
3 x 4 inches (76 x 102 mm)
Collection: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young Legion of Honor, CA. Gift of the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Fe, NM. (2002).
Fiber-tipped pen and transparent and opaque watercolor on paper
12 3/16 × 11 7/16 in (31 × 29.1 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of the Theodore Roszak Estate (1983).
watercolor and ink on paper
12 ½ x 9 ½ inches
Location: Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Purchase (1988).
Graphite pencil and opaque watercolor on paper
Irregular: 5 3/4 × 9 11/16 in (14.6 × 24.6 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of the Theodore Roszak Estate (1983).
Crayon, opaque watercolor, graphite, brush and ink, and pen and ink on paper
Irregular: 23 × 16 9/16 in (58.4 × 42.1 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of the Theodore Roszak Estate (1983).
pencil on paper
9 ½ x 8 ¼ inches
Location: Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Purchased with a gift from Helen Porter and James T. Dyke in honor of Missy Wright Anderson (1991).
Watercolor and opaque white watercolor, colored pencils and black chalk on wove paper
7 1⁄2 x 6 x 1⁄2 inches (192 x 164 mm)
Location: The Morgan LIbrary & Museum, NY. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2014).
Pen, ink, and color pencil on paper
12 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄2 inches (318 x 241 mm)
Location: The Morgan Library & Museum, NY. Gift of Sara Jane Roszak, Estate of Theodore Roszak (2007).
Pen and colored inks and colored pencils on wove paper
14 1⁄2 x 10 3⁄4 inches (381 x 279 mm)
Location: The Morgan Library & Museum, NY. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2014).
Pencil on paper
14 x 8.5 inches (35.5 x 21.7 cm)
Collection: National Museum Warsaw, Poland.
Colored graphite, graphite, and pen
8 x 11 inches
Collection: Chazen Museum of Art. Madison, Wisconsin. Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection (2012 on loan).
Pencil on Graph Paper
11 x 8 1.2 inches (27.94 x 21.59 cm)
Collection: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine. Gift of the Theodore Roszak Estate (2010).
Pencil on graph paper
8-3/8 x 6-1/4 inches (21.3 x 15.9 cm)
Collection: Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford University, California. Gift of Sara Jane Roszak (2004).
graphite on medium, smooth cream wove paper (quadrille paper)
13 9/16 x 8 7/16 inches (34.5 x 21.5 cm)
Collection: Worcester Art Museum, MA. Gift of the estate of Theodore Roszak (1985).
Pen and ink, graphite pencil, and watercolor on paper
16 × 11 15/16 in (40.6 × 30.3 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of Dr. Richard and Carole Rifkind (2012).
Pencil on graph paper on paper
8 x 8 inches (203 x 203 mm)
Location: The Morgan Library & Museum, NY. Gift of Sara Jane Roszak, Estate of Theodore Roszak (2007).
Graphite pencil on wove paper
8 1⁄2 x 11 inches (216 x 279 mm)
Location: The Morgan Library & Museum, NY. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2014).
gouache on paper
10 x 14 inches (25.5 x 35.5 cm)
Collection: National Museum Warsaw, Poland.
Pen, brush and ink, and ink wash on paper
Irregular: 29 3/8 x 33 1/16 inches (74.6 x 83.9 cm)
Collection: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (1966).
Pen and ink and watercolor on paper
18 x 11.75 in (45.7 x 29.8 cm)
Collection: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (1977).
Pen, brush and ink, watercolor, and pencil on paper
28 7/8 x 35 in (73.3 x 88.9 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, in memory of the artist (1982).
Black ink, gouache, and graphite, incised, on paperboard
9 11/16 x 7 3/8 inches (24.6 x 18.8 cm)
Collection: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum. Cambridge, MA. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2006).
Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
14 × 10 in (35.6 × 25.4 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of the Theodore Roszak Estate (1983).
Pen and ink on paper
68.5 x 42.5 inches
Collection: David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University, Muncie, IN. Placed on loan from David T. Owsley (2009).
Pen and ink, ink wash, and pencil on paper
68 1/2 x 28 1/2 in (174.0 x 72.3 cm)
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (1986).
Watercolor and ink on paper
11 7/8 x 15 15/16 in (30.2 x 40.5 cm)
Collection: Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona (1981).
Black ink and wash on paper
10 9/16 x 10 13/16 inches (268 x 275 mm)
Collection: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young Legion of Honor, CA. Gift of James H. Elliott (1998).
Black ink applied with pen and brush, with wash, on off-white wove paper
8 9/16 x 11 inches (21.8 x 28 cm)
Collection: Worcester Art Museum, MA. Gift of the estate of Theodore Roszak (1985).
Opaque and transparent watercolor, black ink, black chalk on wove paper
9 7/8 inches x 14 inches (253 x 356 mm)
Location: The Morgan Library & Museum, NY. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2014).
Gouache on paper
10 x 14 inches (254 x 345 mm)
Location: The Morgan Library & Museum, NY. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2014).
Pen and gray-brown ink and gray wash on paper
26 1/8 × 40 1/16 in (66.4 × 101.8 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (1951).
Pen and black ink, brush and black ink and brown wash, with black ink spatter, over traces of graphite, on cream wove paper
26.5 x 33.6 inches (67.3 x 85.4 cm)
Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago. Morton G. Neumann Fund (1953)
Pen, brush and ink, and wash on paper
Irregular: 42 1/4 × 78 3/8 in (107.3 × 199.1 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of the Theodore Roszak Estate (1983).
India ink, colored ink, and wash on paper
Irregular: 43.5 x 79 in(110.5 x 200.7 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of Mrs. Theodore Roszak (1983).
Ink & wash
29 x 37 inches (73.7 x 94 x 5.1 cm)
Collection: The University of Iowa Museum of Art, (Museum purchase 1982).
Pen and ink on paper
11 in. x 8 1/2 in (27.94 cm x 21.59 cm)
Collection: Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire. Gift of Sara Jane Roszak (2004).
Pen and ink and ink wash on paper
11 x 8 3/8 in. (27.8 x 21.4 cm)
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Collection. Gift of Adelyn D. Breeskin (1968).
Fiber-tipped pen, pen and ink, and brush and ink on paper
Irregular: 11 3/16 × 8 1/2 inches (28.4 × 21.6 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of Sara Jane Roszak (1979).
ball-point pen on chalk overlay paper
20 x 26 inches (50.8 x 66.2 cm)
Collection: National Museum Warsaw, Poland.
Graphite on medium, smooth white wove paper
28 3/4 x 23 1/8 in (73.1 x 58.8 cm)
Location: Worcester Art Museum, MA. Gift of the estate of Theodore Roszak (1985).
10.5 x 13 inches (26.8 x 33.4 cm)
ballpoint pen and chalk overlay on paper
Collection: National Museum of Art Warsaw
Ink on paper
13 x 9 1/4 inches (33 x 23.5 cm)
Collection: Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, Kansas (1995).
Pen and brush and ink on paper
Irregular: 33 5/8 × 29 in (85.4 × 73.7 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of Sara Jane Roszak (1983).
Pen and ink and transparent watercolor
22 1/16 x 29 15/16 inches (56 x 76 cm)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2005).
Pen and ink with transparent and opaque watercolor
65 x 43 5/8 inches (165.1 x 110.8 cm)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA. Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund, Prints, Drawings and Photographs Curator's Discretionary Fund, Harriet Otis Cruft Fund, Helen B. Sweeney Fund, and Ellen Kelleran Gardner Fund (2005).
Pen and ink and watercolor
29 7/8 x 21 5/8 inches (75.9 x 55 cm)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2005).
Pen and black ink with brush and brown, gray, and pink wash
65 x 43 5/8 inches (165.1 x 110.8 cm)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2005).
chalk, graphite, tempera on paper
Collection: Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, Kansas (1981).
Ink on paper
13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in (35.24 x 27.62 cm)
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2005).
Ink wash on paper
17 3/4 x 22 3/4 in (451 x 578 mm)
Location: Faulconer Gallery Grinnell College, Iowa. Purchased through American Federation of Arts NY (1963).
Ink on paper
11 1/2 x 14 1/2 in (29.21 x 36.83 cm)
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2005).
ink, watercolor, and ballpoint pen on paper
23 x 35 inches
Collection: Theodore Roszak Estate
and ballpoint pen on paper
13 7/8 x 16 7/8 inches
Collection: Theodore Roszak Estate
graphite on paper
46 x 62 1/2 inches
Collection: Theodore Roszak Estate
Graphite on paper
15 5/8 x 22 7/8 inches
Collection: Theodore Roszak Estate
Pen and black and blue ink on white wove paper
14 x 17 inches (35.5 x 43.2 cm)
Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago. Bequest of Katharine Kuh (1994).
Graphite pencil on paper
39 5/8 × 62 1/2 in. (100.6 × 158.8 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of the Theodore Roszak Estate (1983).
Graphite and colored pencil on paper
62 1/2 x 48 inches
Collection: Theodore Roszak Estate
Watercolor, graphite, and colored chalks on paper
57 1/2 in. x 47 in. (146.05 cm x 119.38 cm)
Collection: Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio Collection. Gift of John Davis (1983).
Graphite on paper
60 x 47 1/2 inches
Collection: Theodore Roszak Estate
Ink, gouache and colored pencil on paper
40" x 59 3/4"
Collection: Theodore Roszak Estate
Pen and ink on paper
10 1⁄2 x 14 1⁄2 inches (267 x 368 mm)
Location: The Morgan Library & Museum, NY. Gift of Sara Jane Roszak, Estate of Theodore Roszak (2007).
Pen and ink on paper
12 x 16 inches (305 x 406 cm)
Location: The Morgan Library & Museum, NY. Gift of the Estate of Theodore Roszak (2014).
"To me, drawing is of course an experience that has its own self-sufficient and rewarding end. At the same time, it serves as a means of releasing any number of ideas that could not be so readily recorded in any other media. I know of no other way that one can record one's experiences and impressions so quickly, effectively, and efficiently, than drawing. Finally, it acts as an agent by which one can clarify one's thinking and distill many ideas, perhaps even improve on the work itself, by making the mistakes in drawing, so that the drawing becomes a filtering process and a means of selecting ideas, shapes, relationships and even attitudes. It becomes indispensable to me, not only because I love it for itself, but because it does all these other things as well."
[Theodore Roszak Interview with Elliott, February 13, 1956, p. 36]
"The drawings clear all the impediments of conscious attitudes. When I have discovered the most important aspect of that drawing, it is not so much the drawing in the foreground as the drawing that is suggested in the background, and very often that background drawing is the next sculpture that emerges out of that drawing. This is a little wild, a little unfair, yet I think one can say that this method, because it is consciously used, does not mean that it does not have its spontaneity. It is a self-generating process, by which, through one's own efforts, one tries to scrape the bottom of one's psychic imagination. I find that very often an insignificant part of the drawing, some detail which completely slipped my attention at the moment, gives rise to a very complex set of relationships, and another drawing following subsequently and after this, another sculpture."
[Theodore Roszak Interview with Elliott, February 13, 1956, p. 37-38]
Public Collections:
DRAWING- EARLY 1920s-30s
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
National Art Museum Warsaw, Poland
National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Norton Museum of Art, FL
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY
Ulrich Museum of Art-Wichita State University, KS
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Worcester Art Museum, CT
DRAWING-CUBIST 1930s
Arkansas Art Center, AR
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
The Morgan Library & Museum, NY
Norton Museum of Art, FL
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
DRAWING-CONSTRUCTIONS 1930s
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford University, CA
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
The Morgan Library & Museum, NY
Montclair Art Museum, NJ
National Art Museum Warsaw, Poland
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College State University of New York, NY
Newark Museum, NJ
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Ulrich Museum of Art-Wichita State University, KS
Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Worcester Art Museum, CT
Yale University Art Gallery, CT
DRAWING-SCULPTURE 1950s
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
Currier Museum of Art, NH
David Owsley Museum of Art Ball State University, IN
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, The de Young and Legion of Honor Museums, CA
Harvard Art Museums, MA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University, PA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Eli and Edyth Broad Art Museum, Museum in East Lansing MI
Montclair Art Museum, NJ
Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN
MIT List Visual Arts Center, MA
Museum of Modern Art, NY
The Morgan Library & Museum, NY
National Art Museum Warsaw, Poland
Norton Museum of Art, FL
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
SMART Museum of Art, IL
University of Iowa Museum of Art, IA
Ulrich Museum of Art-Wichita State University, KS
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, CT
Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Worcester Art Museum, CT
DRAWING-COSMIC 1950s-70s
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
DRAWING-WOMEN, NATURE, HEADS 1950s
Faulconer Gallery Grinnell College, IA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN
The Morgan Library & Museum, NY
Ulrich Museum of Art-Wichita State University, KS
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Worcester Art Museum, CT
DRAWING-LATE 1960s-70s
Akron Art Museum, OH
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, MI
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
The Morgan Library & Museum, NY
National Art Museum Warsaw, Poland
Norton Museum of Art, FL
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY
Ulrich Museum of Art-Wichita State University, KS
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Worcester Art Museum, CT