Hostage

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Artist Jennings Tofel (American, 1891–1959)

Title Hostage

Date 1953

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Framed: 40 1/8 × 33 1/8 × 1 in. (101.9 × 84.1 × 2.5 cm)
Overall: 40 x 33 in. (101.6 x 83.8 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Arthur & Anne Granick, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 97.49

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Although the identities of the hostage and his captors are not clear, this composition evokes a general sense of fear and dread, possibly referring to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust who were imprisoned in ghettoes and concentration camps. In the same year he painted this work, Tofel also produced a canvas, perhaps meant to complement this one, titled Rescue.

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"Hostage | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2024. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=97.49