Grant Park, Chicago
INV-1178woodcutprint
Date
1931/33
Medium
Woodcut in black on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.7 × 23.5 cm (12 1/8 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 39.7 × 30.7 cm (15 11/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
John H. Wrenn Memorial Endowment
Created during the worst years of the Great Depression, this print by Charles Turzak shows a syncopated arrangement of newspapers covering a group of sleeping homeless men. Chicago was one of the hardest-hit cities, enduring high unemployment rates. Instead of depicting Chicago monuments or the park’s landscape, Turzak focused on the indigent men who often slept in the park, near the city’s center of culture and commerce.
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