TitleArnold
Artist
Simon Dinnerstein
(American, b. 1943)
Date1972
MediumCharcoal, conte crayon, and lithographic crayon on paper
DimensionsSheet size: 84 x 36 in.
Framed: 87 1/2 x 39 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, Gift of Robert Dale Jones in loving memory of Mary Catherine Gray Jones
Object number1994.14
Label TextSimon Dinnerstein has used the human form in his work to create often compelling, sometimes enigmatic, and always captivating paintings and drawings. Whether his works are narrative in content or more formal portraits, drawing has remained central to the artist's practice for nearly forty years. Arnold is one of a series of large-scale, highly-realized drawings done by Dinnerstein in the early 1970s and illustrates his ability as an obsessive draughtsman. This highly realistic and insistently symmetrical composition depicts the sitter, a relative of the artist, captured at once in a static physicality with an intense and active psychological presence.
1907-1908
