Large Primitive Head in Profile
Max Weber
1920-1921
Medium
color linocut on wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 19.7 x 8.9 cm (7 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.) sheet: 23.8 x 17.5 cm (9 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)
Accession Number
1976.61.5
About the Artist
Max Weber
Max Weber (1881–1961), born in Białystok in the Russian Empire (now Poland) to Orthodox Jewish parents, immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, at age ten with his family, joining his tailor father.) There, he pursued art studies at the Pratt Institute under Arthur Wesley Dow, an innovative teacher who emphasized expression and form over traditional narrative, drawing from Japanese art and Paul Gauguin....