Tri-Circle (Tri-círculo)

Theodore Roszak, American, 1907 - 1981

1938

sculpture

wood and lacquer (plastic)

Museum purchase

1980.206

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Modern

Yes

North Wing, Second Floor, American

At this time in his career, Theodore Roszak was interested Constructivism, an austere form of abstraction that favored industrial forms and materials. He was also a student of the Bauhaus style of modernism and taught at the Design Laboratory, a government-funded experimental design school co-founded by Irene Rice Pereira and others. Working with wood and plastic, Roszak sought to eliminate subject matter in his work from 1936 to 1945. His wall-mounted sculptures from this period, including Tri-Circle, possess an uncompromising sense of structure and form. After 1945, he abandoned Constructivism for welding and a more expressionistic style.