(1907-1981) First generation New York abstract expressionist artist
sculptor, painter, draughtsman
Gelatin silver print
2 x 2 9/16 inches
Collection: Chazen Museum of Art. Madison, Wisconsin.
Amanda Berls Fund, Charles R. Crane Fund, Miss Charlotte C. Gregory Fund, Mary Woodard Lasker, in honor of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Woodard Fund, William R. Mitchell Endowment Fund, Dr. and Mrs. Leon Rostker Fund, Harry Steenbock Fund, and Richard E. Stockwell Endowment Fund purchase (1994).
Gelatin Silverprint
9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in
Location: Unknown
Unique photogram
9 15/16 x 8 inches (25.24 x 20.32 cm)
Collection: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum. Cambridge, MA. Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs (2008).
gelatin silver print, photogram
5 7/16 x 4 1/4 inches (13.90 x 10.90 cm)
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. John L. Severance Fund (1989).
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
3.25 x 4.25 inches (8.26 x 10.8 cm)
Collection: Carnegie Museum of Art. Gift of Virginia Zabriskie (1984).
Photography, bromine on paper
4.25 x 3.22 in (10.8 x 8.2 cm)
Collection: National Museum Warsaw, Poland.
Gelatin silver print
8 x 5 inches
Collection: Chazen Museum of Art. Madison, Wisconsin.
Amanda Berls Fund, Charles R. Crane Fund, Miss Charlotte C. Gregory Fund, Mary Woodard Lasker, in honor of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Woodard Fund, William R. Mitchell Endowment Fund, Dr. and Mrs. Leon Rostker Fund, Harry Steenbock Fund, and Richard E. Stockwell Endowment Fund purchase (1999).
Gelatin Silver Print
9 7/8 x 7 15/16 in (25.1 x 20.2 cm)
Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA. Gift of Virginia Zabriskie (1999).
gelatin silver print
9 15/16 x 8 inches (25.24 cm x 20.32 cm)
Collection: Currier Museum of Art. Manchester, New Hampshire. The Henry Melville Fuller Acquisition Fund (2009).
Gelatin silver print
sheet: 8.2 x 10.8 cm (3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Collection: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum. Cambridge, MA. Gift of Virginia Zabriskie (2000).
Gelatin Silver Print, Photogram
9 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches (25.1 x 19.7 cm)
Collection: Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri. Museum Shop Fund (1984).
gelatin silver print (photogram)
9 15/16 x 8 inches (25.24 x 20.32 cm)
Collection: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. Purchased (1984).
photogram, gelatin silver print on gelatin silver paper
9 5/8 in. x 7 13/16 in. (24.45 cm x 19.84 cm)
Collection: Addison Gallery of American Art. Andover, New Hampshire. Museum purchase (1989).
Photograph, photogram, gelatin silver print
9 15/16 x 8 inches (25.3 x 20.3 cm)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA. Sophie M. Friedman Fund (1984).
Gelatin silver print, photogram
Collection: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. Museum purchase funded by Louisa Stude Sarofim (1985).
Gelatin silver print, Photogram
9 15/16 x 7 15/16 inches (25.3 x 20.2 cm)
Collection: Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri. Museum Shop Fund (1984).
Gelatin Silverprint
9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in
Location: Unknown
gelatin silver print
9 15/16 x 7 15/16 inches (25.2 x 20.2 cm)
Collection: Worcester Art Museum, MA. Richard A. Heald Fund (1994)
Gelatin Silverprint
9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silverprint
9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silverprint
9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silverprint
9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in
Location: Unknown
gelatin silver print (photogram)
Collection: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. Purchased (1984).
gelatin silver print (photogram)
Collection: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. Fund of the 80s purchase (1984).
Gelatin Silverprint
9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin silver print
9 5/8 X 7 5/8 in.
Collection: Chazen Museum of Art. Madison, Wisconsin.
Amanda Berls Fund, Charles R. Crane Fund, Miss Charlotte C. Gregory Fund, Mary Woodard Lasker, in honor of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Woodard Fund, William R. Mitchell Endowment Fund, Dr. and Mrs. Leon Rostker Fund, Harry Steenbock Fund, and Richard E. Stockwell Endowment Fund purchase (1999).
Gelatin Silverprint
9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silver Print, Photogram
9 13/16 x 7 15/16 inches (25 x 20.1 cm)
Collection: Saint Louis Museum of Art, Missouri. Museum Shop Fund (1984).
Gelatin Silverprint
9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silverprint
4 3/16 x 3 3/16 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silverprint
4 3/16 x 3 3/16 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silverprint
4 3/16 x 3 3/16 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silver Print
4.25 X 3.25 inches
Collection: Newark Museum, New Jersey. Gift of Virginia M. Zabriskie (1989)
Gelatin Silverprint
4 3/16 x 3 3/16 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin silver print
4 13/16 x 3 7/8 inches (12.2 x 9.9 cm)
Collection: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum. Cambridge, MA. Richard Norton Memorial Fund (1995).
Gelatin Silverprint
4 6/8 x 3 6/8 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silverprint
4 6/8 x 3 6/8 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silverprint
4 5/8 x 3 7/16 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silverprint
4 5/8 x 3 7/16 in
Location: Unknown
Gelatin Silverprint
4 7/8 x 3 15/16 in
Location: Unknown
Photogram
3-1/2 x 4-5/8 inches (8.9 x 11.8 cm)
Collection: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford University, California. Gift of Sara Jane Roszak (2004).
Gelatin Silver Print
4 15/16 x 3 7/8 inches (12.5 x 9.8 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Gift of Virginia M. Zabriskie (1991).
gelatin silver print
4 15/16 x 3 15/16 inches (12.541 x 10.001 cm)
Collection: Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Gift of Don Brock, Phillip C. Johnson, and anonymous donor by exchange
Gelatin Silver Print
4 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches (121 x 95 mm)
Collection: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco de Young Legion of Honor, CA. Gift of David Davies and Jack Weeden (2011).
Gelatin Silver Print
4 11/16 x 3 15/16 in (11.9 x 10 cm)
Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA. Purchased with the Alice Newton Osborn Fund (1985).
Gelatin Silver Print
4 1/4 x 3 3/16 in (10.8 x 8.1 cm)
Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA. Gift of Virginia Zabriskie (1999).
gelatin silver print (photogram)
Collection: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. Gift of Mrs. Virginia M. Zabriskie (1983).
When Roszak was in Munich and Prague in the early 1930s, he was exposed to books and exhibitions of experimental photography such as Moholy-Nagy's Malerei Photographie Film (1925). Roszak met Moholy-Nagy in New York in the late 1930s when he was teaching at the Design Laboratory, a WPA sponsored School of industrial arts. During this time frame of the late 30s, Roszak was simultaneously experimenting with the photogram technique and incorporating elements of the constructions that were preoccupying him at the time.
Only after Roszak’s death did knowledge of a small but important group of photograms created by the sculptor in the 1930s become widespread. He created these unique prints without the aid of a camera- there are no negatives. He instead placed objects directly onto photographic paper and exposed them to light. Using this technique he was able to achieve a remarkable tonal range, from velvety black to right white. Other than wire mesh and sheets of torn paper, the individual objects integrated into this compelling, ambiguous work are difficult to identify. The composition and mood of the photographs, with their emphasis on geometry and abstraction, are similar to Roszak’s constructions of this period. [The Cleveland Art Museum statement]
Public Collection:
Addison Gallery of American Art, New Hampshire
Carnegie Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Madison-Wisconsin
Currier Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young Legion of Honor, California
Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford University, California
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Museum of Modern Art, NY
National Museum Warsaw, Poland
New Jersey State Museum , NJ
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Newark Museum, New Jersey
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Worcester Art Museum, MA