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Portrait

1919–20

Max Weber

(American, born Kingdom of Prussia [now Poland], 1881–1961)
Culture
America
Medium
color woodcut on Chinese paper
Support
Chinese paper
Measurements
Image: 10.5 x 4.7 cm (4 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.); Sheet: 23.6 x 15.9 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett 2018.1072
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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This print was reproduced as an illustration for a short story published in a 1922 issue of the avant-garde journal Broom.

Description

The American artist Max Weber was deeply influenced by non-Western art, including African masks that he viewed at Parisian museums and Japanese prints, which he learned about as a student. Around 1919, he began to combine these interests in a series of relief prints, such as the one seen here. Weber deconstructed the human figure into component parts, emphasizing its simplicity and geometry.
A vertically oriented woodcut depicts a face in fragmented, muted purple geometric shapes within a dark, textured border. Near the top, a single large eye with a yellow lid sits beneath a green semicircular cap. An angular yellow line defines a nose above a small blue block. A textured, orange-red form occupies the lower center, and the signature Max Weber is printed at the bottom right.

Portrait

1919–20

Max Weber

(American, born Kingdom of Prussia [now Poland], 1881–1961)
America

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