Untitled

Painting

-

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Untitled

Entry/Object ID

2006.17

Description

Abstracted male figure in profile, with architectural forms in background Amft?s interest in the figure and in a highly personalized urban landscape come together in the present work, which shows a man in profile (possibly the artist or his father) against an assortment of roofs and cupolas. Made early in the artist?s career, the painting shows a surprising degree of abstraction and an absurdist tone, and shows Amft?s relation to the Imagist and Hairy Who artists the museum has acquired recently (Karl Wirsum, Barbara Rossi, Gladys Nilsson) as well as to contemporary Chicago artists like Tony Fitzpatrick, also in the collection.

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum

Made/Created

Artist

Amft, Robert

Date made

1946

Ethnography

Notes

United States American Chicago North America, United States

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

"Amft '46"

Notes

Inscription Type: BRC, recto, in black paint,

Transcription

"1946"

Notes

Inscription Type: RE, in black paint

Transcription

"# 56"

Notes

Inscription Type: Verso, in pencil

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

PAINTINGS

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image

Width

55.88 cm

Length

60.325 cm

Exhibitions

Chicago at Midcentury: Art from DePaul's Permanent Collection
Chicago at Midcentury: Art from DePaul's Permanent Collection

Interpretative Labels

Label

Untitled Amft, Robert 1946 Abstracted male figure in profile, with architectural forms in background

Label

Untitled Amft, Robert 1946 Abstracted male figure in profile, with architectural forms in background Amft?s interest in the figure and in a highly personalized urban landscape come together in the present work, which shows a man in profile (possibly the artist or his father) against an assortment of roofs and cupolas. Made early in the artist?s career, the painting shows a surprising degree of abstraction and an absurdist tone, and shows Amft?s relation to the Imagist and Hairy Who artists the museum has acquired recently (Karl Wirsum, Barbara Rossi, Gladys Nilsson) as well as to contemporary Chicago artists like Tony Fitzpatrick, also in the collection.