On View
Not on viewObject number1961/2.331
Seated Figures
Artist
Morris Broderson
(American, 1928-2011)
Date1962
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsframe: 56 1/4 in. × 6 ft. 1 1/4 in. × 1 3/4 in. (142.9 × 186.1 × 4.4 cm)
canvas: 55 in. × 6 ft. (139.7 × 182.9 cm)
canvas: 55 in. × 6 ft. (139.7 × 182.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Dorothy Dalton
Exhibition History"Morris Broderson Retrospective," University of Arizona, Tucson (Nov. 4 - Dec. 14, 1975).
"Winter Festival," Detroit Jewish Community Center (Jan. 25, 1966).
"Two by Twenty: Artists from the KIA Collection," KIA (Sept. 3 - Dec. 5, 1996).
On loan to Kalamazoo Aviation Museum (June 3, 1997 - Mar. 16, 1999).
Label TextBroderson is a Los Angeles artist who was born deaf. He is a meticulous draftsman whose figures always appear lost in a timeless trance, sad and alone. In this picture the two figures sit in chairs with their backs facing the spectator and each other. They appear not as individuals but as symbols of the essential loneliness of man.
