Chicago River
Morris Topchevsky
1935–1942
- Medium
- Color soft ground etching, with open bite and drypoint, inked à la poupée, from two plates on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 18 × 28 cm (7 1/8 × 11 1/16 in.); Sheet: 29.5 × 36.9 cm (11 5/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
- Genre
- Etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
After receiving artistic training at Hull House, Morris Topchevsky enrolled in night classes taught by Albert Krehbiel at SAIC. Topchevsky was a workers rights’ advocate, and in 1932 he became one of the founding members of the Chicago chapter of the John Reed Club, a Marxist group that supported artists and intellectuals. While many of Topchevsky’s works depict the hardships of the Great Depression or toiling laborers, this color etching displays a view of the Chicago River.
