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Collection Overview

Title: Ross Rosenberg Art Collection

ID: MS/91

Extent: 0.0

Arrangement:

MS91-1.1 Large Rosenberg Paintings

MS91-1.2 Small Rosenberg Paintings

MS91-2.1 Large Rosenberg Drawings

MS91-2.2 Small Rosenberg Drawings

MS91-3 Rosenberg Sculptures

MS91-4 Rosenberg Prints

MS91-5 Miscellaneous Rosenberg Material

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Ross Rosenberg

I am drawn to commonplace subjects such as chairs and houses because they are comfortingly familiar but at the same time they allow me to express feelings of mystery and foreboding. It is the ambiguity that involves me.

Most of the images are based on early childhood memories. The rounded chair, for example, comes from a memory of being in a dark living room at night. There is a dim light coming from down a long hall. I hear someone in the hall and I climb up onto the chair and hide between the arms on the seat.

The upright chair image is connected to the memory of watching my father making a chair for me when I was four years old. When I sat in it, my back rested against its back, my seat on its seat, my legs by its legs. Now I am both the chair and the one who makes the chair.

So although I do not work from a conscious program or a theoretical base, there are clear emotional lines running through all of my work.

PAINTINGS

The paintings of this rounded chair are seen from a child's eye level and they put an adult in the same size relationship to the chair in the painting that a two-year-old has to a real one. As this series developed, I began to focus more and more on discovering different ways to create texture. So some of them are as much about how they were made as why they were made.

DRAWINGS

The drawings of this rounded chair are, like the paintings, done from a child's eye level. Most of the drawings are as large as the paintings and they put an adult in the same relationship to the chair that a two-year-old has to a real one.

SCULPTURE

When small children sit in an overstuffed chair, the experience is like that of being held by an adult. The seat is like a lap, the child leans back against the chair and is held by the chair's arms. The chair sculptures were created with the intention of emphasizing this relationship between the chair and the human body. The two house reliefs are from early memories of houses on the steep hill on which we lived. They, and the chair relief, use the wall behind them as the ground rather than having a traditional shelf-like base.]

-- Ross Rosenberg

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Paintings],
[Series 2: Drawings],
[Series 3: Sculpture],
[Series 4: Prints],
[Series 5: Very Small Drawings: Dream Series],
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Series 1: Paintings

Sub-Series 1: Large Paintings

Item 1: Big Black Charcoal Chair, 1980

Big black charcoal chair; "Rosenberg '80"

Medium: charcoal on paper

Size: 70"x 58.25"

Photo: MS91-1.1-1 Big Black Charcoal Chair -Watermarked.jpg

Item 2: Wood chair outline, 12/28/80-1/1/81

Wood chair outline, solid black charcoal; "12/28/80-1/1/81"

Medium: charcoal on paper

Size: 83.5"x59"

Photo #: 100-0022

Item 3: Dots 3, March '87

Dalmation chair, black paint on cream paper; 3/87

Medium: acrylic on paper

Size: 85.75"x62"

Photo #: 100-0023

Item 4: Graphite All Shiny

Graphite chair; "Image made by directional strokes"

Medium: graphite on paper

Size: 83"x60"

Photo #: 100-0024,0025,0026

Item 5: 3-D texture resembling asphalt

3-D texture resembling asphalt, small tree and building

Medium: 3-D texture on canvas (oil stick)

Size: 69.5"x90"

Photo #: 100-0027,0028

Rosenberg photo book (similar to) p. 14

Item 6: Elephant Skin Chair

Chair made of layers of medium (small damage in middle)

Medium: oil stick on canvas

Size: 60"x78"

Photo: MS91-1.1-6 Elephant Skin Chair

Rosenberg photo book p. 7

Item 7: Chair Window

Blue acrylic of a chair by a window, roof in distance

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 71.5"x71.25"

Photo #: 100-0030

Rosenberg photo book (similar to) p. 47

Item 8: Joe's 198?

Acrylic, looking out window at Joe's, robot, bright colors - blue, green, red, yellow, black

Medium: acrylic

Size: 72"x87"

Photo #: 100-0031

Item 9: Armchair-House

Medium: Oil stick on canvas

Size:72 x 66

Photo #:100-0032

Item 13: Watercolor Chair

Black on rag paper, watercolor

Medium:water color on rag paper

Size:76 3/4 x 59 3/8

Photo #:100-0036

Item 14: Swirly Black Chair, 4/4/81

Black watercolor on Rag Paper, chair

Medium:water color on rag paper

Size:49.5 x 62

Photo #:100-0037

Item 15: Black Spotted Chair

Paint cracked

Medium:water color

Size:57 x 72.5

Photo #:100-0038

Item 16: Shiny and Black Chair

Medium:acrylic black

Size:49 x 62

Photo #:100-0039

Item 17: Red-Orange Chair, 1982

Medium:Red watercolor on 100% veg paper

Size:60.5 x 80.5

Photo #:100-0040

Item 20: House and Tree

Medium:oil stick on canvas

Size:67 x 83

Photo #:100-0043

Item 21: Black and Gold Chair

Medium:Oil Sick and Canvas

Size:91 x 70 3/4

Photo #:100-0044

Item 22: Black and Gray Chair

Medium:Oil sick on canvas

Size:69.5 x 87.5

Photo #:100-0045

Item 23: Bright Colored Robot People

Medium:Oil on Canvas

Size:57 x 70

Photo #:100-0046

Item 24: Blue Chair

Medium:Acrylic on Canvas

Size:87 x 72

Photo #:100-0047

Item 25: Silver Chair, 1982

Medium:Oil stick on canvas-Rag Paper matted on canvas with Jade 403

Size:59.5 x 77

Photo #:100-0048

Item 26: Curves

Medium:Acrylic-Two different shades of blue

Size:89 x 72

Photo #:100-0049

Item 27: Black and Gold Chair-Partial

Medium:Oil stick on canvas

Size:70.5 x 68

Photo: MS91-1.1-27 Black and Gold Partial -Watermarked.jpg

Rosenberg Book: p.20

Item 28: Tree at Night in front of Fence

Medium:Oil Stick on Canvas

Size:70 x 55.5

Photo #:100-0051

Item 29: Chair and House, 2/14/84

Medium:Oil stick on canvas

Size:70.5 x 68 3/4

Photo #:100-0052

Item 30: Tree Wall House, 1990

Large Tree-Gold and Black with Fence and Roof in Background

Medium:Oil stick on canvas

Size:86 1/2 x 67

Photo: MS91-1.1-30 Treewall House

Item 31: Black and Gray Maternal Chair

Medium: oil stick on canvas

Size: 89.75"x69.5"

Photo #: 100-0054

Rosenberg photo book p. 9

Item 32: Study on "Joe's"

Medium: acrylic and chalk

Size: 82"x75"

Photo #: 100-0055

Item 33: Spotted Grey Chair, 1990

Medium: Oilstick on handmade paper on canvas 1990

Size: 70" x 89"

Photo: MS91-1.1-33 "Spotted Grey Chair"

Rosenberg Book: pages 3-4.

Item 34: Dark Orange Chair, 1983

Medium: Stain on Paper Canvas

Size: 60" x 78"

Photo: MS91-1.1-34 Dark Orange Chair

Rosenberg Book: Page 6

Item 35: Crimson Chair, 1983

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas

Size: 62" x 80"

Photo: MS91-1.1-35 Crimson Chair

Rosenberg Book: Slides 15, Pages 10-11

Item 36: Wall and Two Branches, 1990

Medium: Oil Stick on handmade paper on Canvas

Size: Unknown

Photo: MS91-1.1-36 "Wall and Two Branches"

Rosenberg Book: Page 23, No 35mm Slides.

Item 37: Coffee Cup Chair, 1984

Medium: Unknown

Size: Unknown

Photo: MS91-1.1-37 "Coffee Cup Chair"

Rosenberg Book: Slides 24, Page 27.

Sub-Series 2: Small Paintings

Item 1: Branches

Branches, black and white

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 40"x35.5"

Photo #: 100-0013

Item 2: Stairs and chairs

Stairs and chairs, white

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 41"x36"

Photo #: 100-0014

Item 3: Branches 2

Branches 2

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 36.5"x41"

Photo #: 100-0015

Item 4: Hills and building

Hills and building

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 37"x29.5"

Photo #: 100-0016

Item 5: Stairs and window

Stairs and window, white (damaged with brown spots)

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 41"x35.5"

Photo #: 100-0017

Item 6: Street Light

Chair, window, building, blue; "Ross Rosenberg, 141 W 17, New York, NY"

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 32.5"x30.5"

Photo #: 100-0018

Rosenberg photo book p. 47

Item 7: Table, 3 chairs, window

Table, 3 chairs, window, blue

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 35"x41"

Photo #: 100-0019

Rosenberg photo book p. 45

Item 8: 7 chairs

7 chairs, black on cream paper (fragile, needs encapsulation)

Medium: paint on paper ???

Size: 21.5"x58"

Photo #: 100-0020

Item 9: Chair and Window, Unknown

Medium: Unknown Paint and Surface

Size: Unknown

Photo: MS91-1.2-9

Rosenberg Book: 29

Item 10: 3D Orange Chair, 1983

Medium: Mixed media relief on canvas

Size: 54" x 45" x 1"

Photo: MS91-1.2-10 "3D Orange Chair"

Rosenberg Book: Page 26 ( 35mm Slides x3)

Item 11: Partial Orange

Corner of Orange Rounded Chair on Purple Background.

Rosenberg Book: Page 30 (35mm Slides x2)

Item 34: Study of "Three Chairs"

Medium: acrylic

Size: 40"x34"

Photo #: 100-0066

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Paintings],
[Series 2: Drawings],
[Series 3: Sculpture],
[Series 4: Prints],
[Series 5: Very Small Drawings: Dream Series],
[All]