Grant Park, Chicago

Description

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.

Grant Park, Chicago

Charles Turzak

1931/33

Accession Number

117830

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.)

Classification

woodcut

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

John H. Wrenn Memorial Endowment