Portrait of W.H.
Michael Hurson
1977–1987
- Medium
- Pastel and charcoal with stumping and watercolor, squared in blue pencil, on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sight: 103 × 63.3 cm (40 9/16 × 24 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- pastel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
squaring (transferring technique)drawings (visual works)paintpencilprints and drawingsplant materialprints and drawingpastelwatercolorpastels (crayons)portraitscrayonsstumpingdrawing techniquescoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paintcharcoal
About
Trained at the School of the Art Institute, Michael Hurson spent the bulk of his career in New York. In the 1980s he created a group of large portrait drawings, conflating Cubist fracturing of space with comedic graphic conventions. This portrait of the Chicago collector Will Hokin was first exhibited at the museum in 1984.
