TitleThe Drinker
Artist
Robert Winthrop White
(1921 - 2002)
Date[1964]
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 28 × 20 × 16 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, October 4, 1982
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1982.2550
Label TextValentin Tatransky, in a December 1983 Arts magazine article, described the facts of the creation of this piece and its sensibility: In 1959-60 White created a series of sculptures of men drinking in a bar. The originality of this group owes a lot to how he used the technique of direct-plaster. He made these figures about the same time as George Segal's first plaster-cast sculpture, Man Sitting At a Table (1961). Neither one knew about the other's work. White was inspired by what he saw happen to the human body in the bar. He says he was impressed by the "ritual character" of the bar. He saw how drinking creates a language of the body, otherwise absent in daily life. To create the circumstances of the bar, he composed an ensemble of four figures. He worked directly in plaster from memory, without models.
n.d.
1960
