Julio Gonzalez
Spanish, 1876-1942
Related to Pen VIII
INV-1988
Julio Gonzalez
Spanish, 1876-1942April, 30, 1939
Related to Pen VIII
Julio Gonzalez Spanish, 1876-1942 →prints and drawingdrawings (visual works)
Date
April, 30, 1939
Medium
Pen and black ink and white chalk, over graphite, on buff wove paper
Dimensions
30.8 × 20.8 cm (12 3/16 × 8 1/4 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
This sketch for one of the artist’s iron-welded forms conveys Gonzalez’s increasing fear and anxiety in response to the Spanish Civil War, a concern he shared with his countrymen Picasso and Miró, both of whom devoted much of their art in the 1930s to the subject.
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