Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981
Roszak established a studio in New York City in 1932 and worked as an artist for the Works Progress Administration during the depression before going back to Chicago to teach at the Art Institute. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College throughout the 1940s and 1950s and at Columbia University from 1970 to 1973. He was a participating artist at the documenta II in Kassel 1959 and at the Venice Biennale in 1960. Roszak's sculpture, at first closer to Constructivism and displaying an industrial aesthetic, changed after around 1946 to a more expressionistic style.
Roszak was affiliated with the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the American Academy in Rome, and the National Academy of Design. He served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1963 to 1969. He received the Logan Medal of the Arts (1930), a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship (1931), and the Eisendrath Award of the Art Institute of Chicago (1934). Roszak was also an accomplished violinist, and liked to use musical references in his artworks. Roszak died in New York City, where he lived.
Roszak sculpted the 35-foot (11 m) gilded aluminum eagle on the pediment of the former US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London.
Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
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referencedIn | Joan Seeman papers | Archives of American Art | |
creatorOf | Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. | Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) | |
creatorOf | Roszak, Theodore. Roszak, Theodore : [photography bio file]. | Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library | |
creatorOf | Guild Art Gallery records | Archives of American Art | |
referencedIn | Ezio Martinelli Papers, 1927-1968 | Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center | |
referencedIn | Roszak, Theodore : Biographical file. | Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center | |
referencedIn | American Federation of Arts records | Archives of American Art | |
creatorOf | Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981. Artist file. | Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives | |
creatorOf | Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981. Theodore Roszak papers, 1930-1980. | Getty Research Institute | |
referencedIn | Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. | Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library | |
creatorOf | De Mille, Richard, 1922-. The Richard De Mille Collection, 1959-1979. | University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library | |
creatorOf | International Association of Art Critics panel discussions | Archives of American Art | |
creatorOf | Belle Krasne Ribicoff papers | Archives of American Art | |
creatorOf | Theodore Roszak papers, 1926-1994, 1930-1980 | Getty Research Institute | |
referencedIn | Pierre Matisse Gallery printed material | Archives of American Art | |
referencedIn | Belle Krasne Ribicoff papers | Archives of American Art | |
referencedIn | Rhys Caparn Papers, 1932-1973 | Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center | |
creatorOf | Remo Farruggio papers | Archives of American Art | |
creatorOf | Theodore Roszak papers | Archives of American Art | |
referencedIn | Yaddo records, 1870-1980 | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
referencedIn | José de Creeft papers | Archives of American Art | |
creatorOf | Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981. Theodore J. Roszak : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York]. | Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection |
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creatorOf | Oral history interview with Theodore Roszak | Archives of American Art | |
referencedIn | Oral history interview with Peter Agostini | Archives of American Art |
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