Jerry Saltz
American, born 1951
Canto III 1 #124
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Jerry Saltz
American, born 19511978
Canto III 1 #124
Jerry Saltz American, born 1951 →pasteldrawings (visual works)
Date
1978
Medium
Oil pastel and graphite, with incising, on white wove paper
Dimensions
56.8 × 76.1 cm (22 3/8 × 30 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Phil Shorr
Now well known as an art critic based in New York, Saltz dropped out of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to cofound N.A.M.E. Gallery—for years one of Chicago’s most important noncommercial spaces—in 1973. This triptych was inspired by Canto III of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem the Divine Comedy, which takes place in Hell. Though Saltz clearly demonstrated talent, he succumbed to self-doubt and took a hiatus from creating art, working as a truck driver hauling art over long distances (which gave him plenty of time to develop his critical thinking skills).
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