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Frederic Rodrigo Gruger

Sweat and Iron, 1924

Description

Maker

  • Frederic Rodrigo Gruger, 1871-1953, American

Title

Sweat and Iron

Year

1924

Medium

Crayon, wash, graphite with touches of white gouache on illustration board

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • wash technique,
  • gouache,
  • graphite

Supports

  • illustration board

Dimensions

27.3 x 47 cm (10 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed in Charcoal in LR:F. R. Gruger

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of F. R. Gruger, Jr.

Object Number

1989.021.3

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Draw Me a Story

April 14 - July 23, 2006

Frederic Gruger attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Thomas Anshutz. In 1898, he began his 45-year career as an illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post, producing over 2,700 illustrations, while working simultaneously as a book illustrator. Gruger developed a distinctive drawing technique known as the Wolff-carbon-pencil technique, which would become quite influential. He sketched his composition, and then applied watercolor washes in order to add tone. He finished by building his forms and details with a Wolff pencil. Using an eraser to rub the drawing, he blended the marks into a rich, velvety texture. He used a relatively inexpensive illustration board that later became a mainstay of illustrators and was named “Gruger Board.”

Early Modernism in America

February 24 - April 16, 1995

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