William Zorach
American, 1887-1966
Adoration
INV-1296
William Zorach
American, 1887-19661920, published 1928
Adoration
William Zorach American, 1887-1966 →linocutprint
Date
1920, published 1928
Medium
Linocut on cream wove tissue
Dimensions
Image: 29.1 × 22 cm (11 1/2 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 40.4 × 27.2 cm (15 15/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Lithuanian by birth, William Zorach taught at the Art Students League in New York from 1929 to 1960. A sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer who had studied in Paris in 1910–11, he became part of a small group of modern artists who worked in New York; Provincetown, Massachusetts; and Maine. With his wife, Marguerite Zorach, he showed Fauvist-inspired paintings at the Armory Show in 1913 and Cubist and Expressionist works at the Forum Exhibition of 1916. In this linocut, Zorach exploited the clean lines and smooth surface of the medium to create a Cubist construction in which figure and space are not entirely differentiated.
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