Mother and Daughter by Aaron Bohrod

Mother and Daughter by Aaron Bohrod

Mother and Daughter

Aaron Bohrod

Title

Mother and Daughter

 
Artist

Aaron Bohrod

  1907 - 1992 (biography)
Year
1930  
Technique
etching 
Image Size
5 7/16 x 4" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right, signed "Bohrod" within the plate, upper right image. 
Edition Size
4 of 4  
Annotations
pencil dated, editioned, and annotated "to the Tannenbaums" 
Reference
 
Paper
antique-white laid 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
23410 
Price
SOLD
Description

This early etching was done in 1930 by Aaron Bohrod while he was studying at the Art Students' League in New York, and had become friends with Ashcan printmaker John Sloan. In the fall of 1930 Bohrod moved back to his native Chicago, Illinois. This impression is dedicated "To the Tannenbaums", probably one of the Chicago area Tannenbaums.

"Mother and Daughter" shows the influence of Matisse's etching of the late 1920s, early 30s on the young American; flattened linear spaces, separated by line, the simple repetitive design on the daughter's dress, no shadow, etc. This "modernist" approach was used by American printmaker Milton Avery in the mid 1930s.

The composition is direct; the mother, with her hair cut short or pulled up tight and her hands folded, looks the viewer in the eye with a sense of concern, perhaps for the social problems that are on the horizon after the 1929 stock market crash. Her daughter hugs her assuredly as they both snuggle into the overstuffed armchair.