The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

First Study for Vertical Construction

1939
sculptor

Theodore Roszak

(American, born Kingdom of Prussia [now Poland], 1907–1981)
America, New York
plastic and painted wood
Overall: 61.8 x 32.4 x 10.2 cm (24 5/16 x 12 3/4 x 4 in.)
Gift of the Cleveland Society for Contemporary Art in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee 1983.159
© Estate of Theodore Roszak / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Location: Not on view
  • Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (February 1984): 38–79. Mentioned: p. 72, no. 103; Reproduced: p. 64 www.jstor.org
    Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 68, no. 77
  • Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).
    The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
    MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 77, p. 120, color repr. p. 68.
    CMA 1984: "Year in Review 1983," Bulletin, LXXI (February 1984), p. 72, no. 103, repr. p. 64
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