Invocation III, 1957-58
"The first one deals with physical survival and the second has much more emphatic direction toward the spiritual survival of human qualities and in "number III" I would like to embody both of these, plus the salient characteristics of the forms of all the work that I have done. So that it becomes a total experience based upon the physical and the spiritual and the creative qualities expressed in this one idea. It is a kind of organismic evolution of varying levels of survival characteristics and I don't think it would be complete if it merely began and ended with the first one." [Theodore Roszak Interview with Elliott, 1956, p.18]
Invocation III, 1957-58
Copper alloy (nickel silver) and steel
67.5” x 41.75”
Collection: David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Munci, IN. Place on loan by David P. Owsley (2009).
Study for Invocation III, 1952
Pen and ink, brush and ink, wash, and charcoal on paper
Irregular: 92 5/8 × 42 1/8 in (235.3 × 107 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of the Theodore Roszak Estate (1983).
Invocation III Study, 1959
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).