TitleMoneybag Man
Artist
Tom Otterness
(American, b. 1954)
Date1995
MediumPlaster
DimensionsOverall: 20 x 9 x 7 in.
SignedSigned on back of figure's left foot, in black ink: "Tom Otterness / 1997".
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, March 19, 1997
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1997.8
Label TextKnown for his humorous narrative sculptures in bronze, Tom Otterness was born in Wichita, Kansas and studied painting and drawing at the Art Students League and the Whitney Independent Study Program. By the late 1970s, Otterness had helped found Collaborative Projects, a group of more than fifty young artists who had a big show in 1980. By the latter part of the decade the artist was receiving commissions for public sculpture, some of his better known projects include "The Real World" and "Modern Times.""Moneybag Man" is the plaster maquette for the bronze version of the same piece, a singular character in "Life Underground," the large multi-figure installation that Otterness was commissioned to create for the 14th Street and 8th Ave. subway station. The work was inspired by nineteenth-century political cartoons that skewer corruption and contains a series of humorous narrative vignettes that nevertheless address issues of wealth, poverty, capitalism, and greed.
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