Bathers Wrestling
Artist
Boardman Robinson
(American, 1876 - 1952)
Datebefore 1928
MediumInk, wash and crayon on paper
DimensionsOverall: 19 3/16 x 12 15/16in. (48.7 x 32.9cm)
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Credit LineEdward W. Root Bequest
Object number57.215
Description On View
Not on viewCollections
CopyrightPresumed copyright: the artist or the artist's representative/heir(s).
Label TextRoot purchased this drawing in January 1928 from an exhibition of Robinson's paintings and drawings sponsored by the Utica Art Society at 265 Genesee Street. In the late-1920s this organization presented contemporary art shows to promote a "permanent and growing interest in art" in the decade before the Munson-Williams Proctor Institute opened to the pubic in 1935. While the exhibition was on view Root published a review in the Utica Daily Press in which he recollected how, as a young man working in the editorial department of the New York Evening Sun, he admired the cartoons Robinson published in those years in a rival newspaper, the New York Tribune. Root praised this drawing's successful massing of forms and sense of "flowing movement." He also pointed out that the drawing was either a preliminary study, or a copy of a design Robinson published on the cover of the New Masses in August 1926, the year this prominent American Marxist magazine was first published.
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