Aaron Bohrod
American, 1907 - 1992Figure Studies
Not on view
Pencil on paper
Dimensions7 13/16 × 5 9/16 in. (19.8 × 14.1 cm)
Gift of Mr. Jack B. Pierson, 1994.18
While studying at the Art Students League in New York City, Aaron Bohrod was strongly influenced by the social realism of painter John Sloan. In the 1930s, he worked for the Chicago Federal Art Project where he painted three WPA murals for numerous post offices in Illinois. He later spent time in the South Pacific during World War II as a war artist and in Europe on assignments from Life magazine and from the U.S. Engineers to record the events of World War II in Normandy, Cherbourg, England, Germany, and the South Pacific. Following this assignment, he was appointed artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he remained until his retirement in 1973. Like many artists Bohrod used preliminary sketches to explore the human form and experiment with different poses.
