Chaim Gross (American, 1902–1991), Mother and Children, 112.5/150, 1969 Lithograph
Chaim Gross was a major American modernist sculptor and printmaker best known for direct carving in wood and for compact figure groups centered on acrobats, dancers, and family life. Born in Galicia, he immigrated to New York in 1921 and studied at the Educational Alliance, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and the Art Students League. The same interlocking bodies and shifting balance found in his sculpture carry into his drawings and lithographs. His work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which organized a survey of his sculpture and drawings in 1974.
Mother and Children, 1969, is a stone lithograph in black on wove paper.A reclining mother fills the lower half of the composition while several children appear around her playing. Numbered in pencil “112½/150” lower left, signed and dated “Chaim Gross 69” lower center, and titled “mother + children” lower right. Sheet measures approximately 19.875 × 15.875 inches. Condition shows pronounced overall curling from storage, light age toning, and minor handling wear; image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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19.875 x 15.875 in
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Chaim Gross was a major American modernist sculptor and printmaker best known for direct carving in wood and for compact figure groups centered on acrobats, dancers, and family life. Born in Galicia, he immigrated to New York in 1921 and studied at the Educational Alliance, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and the Art Students League. The same interlocking bodies and shifting balance found in his sculpture carry into his drawings and lithographs. His work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which organized a survey of his sculpture and drawings in 1974.
Mother and Children, 1969, is a stone lithograph in black on wove paper.A reclining mother fills the lower half of the composition while several children appear around her playing. Numbered in pencil “112½/150” lower left, signed and dated “Chaim Gross 69” lower center, and titled “mother + children” lower right. Sheet measures approximately 19.875 × 15.875 inches. Condition shows pronounced overall curling from storage, light age toning, and minor handling wear; image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Dimensions
19.875 x 15.875 in
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