Untitled

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Artist Pavel Tchelitchew (American (born Russia), 1898–1957)

Title Untitled

Date 1929

Medium Brown and black ink and brown wash on paper

Dimensions Image: 9 x 11 1/4 in. (22.9 x 28.6 cm)
Sheet: 9 x 11 1/4 in. (22.9 x 28.6 cm)

Credit Line Estate of Joseph F. McCrindle, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2009.19

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This image may relate to the artist's studies of children and plants as part of his allegory of Purgatory. Such imagery was also used to illustrate Parker Tyler's poem "Yesterday's Children" (1944). Tyler co-edited the Surrealist journal View with Charles Henri Ford, Pavel Tchelitchew's life partner.

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"Untitled | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2009.19