Theodore Jacob Roszak (1907-1981)

The present work is one of the last constructions that Theodore Roszak created before transitioning to a concentration on welded sculpture. The arrangement of colored wire emphasizes the negative space created by the elements as much as the linear forms themselves, as Roszak himself explained in 1956, "The open wire or the open space where the voids were greater than the masses was the culmination point of free, almost unfettered, pure space construction." (Interview with J. Elliott, February 13, 1956, p. 31)