Sculptor, lithographer, and painter Theodore Roszak began his career as a painter but is best known for welded sculptures of brass and bronze that are tied to Constructivism and the ideas of the... Read full biography
Sculptor, lithographer, and painter Theodore Roszak began his career as a painter but is best known for welded sculptures of brass and bronze that are tied to Constructivism and the ideas of the Bauhaus School. His signatures sculptures are pitted and scratched in texture and in style are abstract,... Read full biography
Sculptor, lithographer, and painter Theodore Roszak began his career as a painter but is best known for welded sculptures of brass and bronze that are tied to Constructivism and the ideas of the Bauhaus School. His signatures sculptures are pitted and scratched in texture and in style are abstract, often figural, and sometimes surreal in appearance. Some critics have compared them to gestural painting of the Abstract Expressionists. His themes combine myth and dismay with the contemporary... Read full biography
Sculptor, lithographer, and painter Theodore Roszak began his career as a painter but is best known for welded sculptures of brass and bronze that are tied to Constructivism and the ideas of the Bauhaus School. His signatures sculptures are pitted and scratched in texture and in style are abstract, often figural, and sometimes surreal in appearance. Some critics have compared them to gestural painting of the Abstract Expressionists. His themes combine myth and dismay with the contemporary world. Some of the works for which he is best known are "Spectre of Kitty Hawk," 1946-47, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and "Migrant," 1950, University of Illinois). The sculptures are projections that seem menacing and wanting to twist free from... Read full biography
Sculptor, lithographer, and painter Theodore Roszak began his career as a painter but is best known for welded sculptures of brass and bronze that are tied to Constructivism and the ideas of the Bauhaus School. His signatures sculptures are pitted and scratched in texture and in style are abstract, often figural, and sometimes surreal in appearance. Some critics have compared them to gestural painting of the Abstract Expressionists. His themes combine myth and dismay with the contemporary world. Some of the works for which he is best known are "Spectre of Kitty Hawk," 1946-47, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and "Migrant," 1950, University of Illinois). The sculptures are projections that seem menacing and wanting to twist free from their cores. "Thin members are combined with broader metallic sheets in open construction, as if Roszak were adding to a Constructivist armature... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (109)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
2005
Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro)
246 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
Los Angeles Art Show Fine Art Dealers Association Presents (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Fine Art Dealers Association
66 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium
1994
Reynolds, Donald Martin
275 pages (color)
Abstract Expressionism Works on Paper
1993
Messinger, Lisa
163 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience
1991
Polcari, Stephen
408 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
A Spectrum of Innovation Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Acton, David
304 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Counterpoint Two Centuries of American Masters (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
112 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Theodore Roszak Paintings & Drawings from the Thirties (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Dreishpoon, Douglas
79 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Drawn from Tradition: American Drawings and Watercolors: From the Collection of Susan and Herbert Adler, Neuberger Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Weber, Bruce
185 pages (color)
Adventure and Inspiration American Artists in Other Lands (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Ward, Meredith (essay)
172 pages (color)
Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem
1988
Wooden, Howard E
212 pages
20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art
1987
Cummings, Paul
176 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947
1987
Saint Louis Art Museum
225 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
The Sturman Collection Twentieth-Century Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Karp, Ivan (intro)
44 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-1946 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Champa, Kermit S. (Intro); Nancy Versaci (Essay)
142 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Wooden, Howard E
151 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Collecting Phoenix Art Museum, 1957-1984
1984
Phoenix Art Museum
45 pages (color)
Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art
1983
Contreras, Belasario R
253 pages
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Lane, John R and Susan Larsen
256 pages (color)
Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art
1981
Cummings, Paul
64 pages
An American Choice Muriel Kallis Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Lieberman, William (editor)
167 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney
1981
Whitney Museum
136 pages
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists
1979
Yochim, Louise Dunn
297 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
American Drawings The 20th Century
1976
Cummings, Paul
207 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Milwaukee Art Center
186 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art
1975
Taylor, Joshua C
117 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Sculpture
1974
Read, Herbert
310 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Art in America A Brief History
1973
McClanathan, Richard
216 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
American Art of the 20th Century
1972
Hunter, Sam
487 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Inaugural Exhibition 19th & 20th Cen Art from Collections of Alumni (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Blumenthal, Arthur
144 pages
Human Concern/Personal Torment The Grotesque in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Doty, Robert
72 pages (color)
The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Agee, William C
80 pages (color)
The American Tradition in the Arts
1968
McLanathan, Richard
492 pages
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art
1968
Weller, Allen S
185 pages
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
Modern American Sculpture
1967
Ashton, Dore
130 pages (color)
American Art Since 1900 A Critical History
1967
Rose, Barbara
320 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Goodrich, Lloyd
150 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-19 (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Henning, Edward B
209 pages (color)
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters
1965
Hayes, Bartlett H Jr
141 pages (color)
Break Up The Core of Modern Art
1965
Kuh, Katherine
136 pages (color)
A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Whitney Museum
52 pages
Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Baur, John I H
91 pages (color)
Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ...
1963
International Assoc. of Art
119 pages
What Is American in American Art
1963
Lipman, Jean (editor)
180 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture: Norton Gallery and School of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Woods, Willis F. (Intro);
100 pages (color)
Geometric Abstraction in America (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Gordon, John
68 pages (color)
American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Hunter, Sam
83 pages (color)
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
Quatro Artisti Americani Guston, Hofman, Kline, Roszak (Exhibition catalog)
1960
Breeskin, Adelyn D
56 pages (color)
Theodore Roszak (Exhibition catalog)
1956
Arnason, H H
55 pages (color)
Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York (Exhibition catalog)
1956
Tate Gallery
72 pages
El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1955
Museum of Modern Art
80 pages
The Arizona State College Collection of American Art
1954
Arizona State University
110 pages
Masters of Modern Art
1954
Barr, Alfred H Jr
239 pages (color)
Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art
1951
Baur, John I H
170 pages
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America (Exhibition catalog)
1951
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff
159 pages (color)
Fourteen Americans (Exhibition catalog)
1946
Miller, Dorothy (editor)
80 pages
Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Art Institute of Chicago
110 pages
Sanity in Art
1937
Logan, Josephine Hancock
127 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)