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The Fall

1983-1984

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The Fall

1983-1984

Physical Qualities Woodcut, Sheet: 1073 × 1557 mm. (42 1/4 × 61 5/16 in.) Image: 1067 × 1452 mm. (42 × 57 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Friends of Art Fund
Object Number 1986.26
In the 1980s Richard Bosman was preoccupied with rendering frozen moments of violent, suspenseful narratives in his prints and paintings. These disturbing scenes were inspired, in part, by memories of book covers and comics that he’d read when young. The figure mysteriously hurtling through space in The Fall is caught in limbo; the artist provides no clues about his identity, location, or action. Bosman enhances the drama of his ambiguous scenarios through his exploitation of roughly-hewn edges, bold forms, and strong contrasts of light and dark.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Woodcuts Now," 9 December 2009 - 28 March 2010.

Jan Howard, BMA, "Marking the Decades: Prints 1960-1990," February 23- April 26, 1992.
'Woodcuts Now,' "BMA Today," Fall-Winter 2009, pp. 13, ill.

Signed: 1

Markings: At lower left, in graphite: "26/32"; at lower right, in graphite: "Bosman"

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