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Maker(s):Brook, Alexander
Culture:American (1898-1980)
Title:The Radio Fan
Date Made:1922
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas
Accession Number:  AC 1988.7
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
The beat of time resonates through Brook’s painting of a man lost in the sound of music on the radio. He looks deeply entranced, eyes closed in concentration as one foot swings to the rhythm. Brook painted this portrait in 1922, amid a decade of upbeat jazz and the dawn of commercial radio—one of the main entertainment sources of the era. We don’t see the actual transistor, but the man here does not wear the kind of earphone that connected to the first crystal radios, suggesting he hears the music wafting from a horn-shaped speaker.

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