| Maker(s): | Rosenberg, James N. | | Culture: | American (1874 - 1970)
| | Title: | Mad House, November 13, 1929
| | Date Made: | 1929 November 13
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | lithograph on Rives buff wove paper
| | Place Made: | United States
| | Measurements: | sheet: 15 7/8 x 11 1/4 in.; 40.3225 x 28.575 cm; image: 15 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.; 38.5763 x 24.13 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | initialed on stone at upper right: JNR, titled on stone at center: Nov 13 MAD HOUSE 1929, signed and dated in pencil at lower left: James N Rosenberg 1929, inscribed in pencil at lower right: 25 copies
| | Accession Number: | SC 1951.180
| | Credit Line: | Gift of James N. Rosenberg
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
Depression era , collapsing city scape with crowds of people; stockmarket crash
Label Text:
A lawyer by profession, James Rosenberg made his first drawings in 1919, when he was inspired by viewing a Victory Parade down Fifth Avenue from his office window. He was a friend and admirer of the noted painter and printmaker George Bellows, who referred him to the lithography printer George C. Miller after Rosenberg admired Bellows's lithographs and related his own difficulties with etching. Rosenberg made fifteen lithographs with Miller, stopping in 1930 when his law practice began to consume all of his time and energy. He returned to making lithographs in the late 1950s, and continued painting and drawing throughout his life.
Rosenberg's passion as an artist was the expression of emotional states that he felt could only be communicated visually. Mad House, November 13, 1929 uses strong gestural drawing and cartoonish grotesque imagery to depict the chaotic atmosphere in New York City on the day of the historic stock market crash that began the Depression.
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