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untitled (a valentine for my mother) by charles steffen, 1991, graphite & colored pencil on brown wrapping paper, 35 x 28 inches.
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untitled (a valentine for my mother) by charles steffen, 1991, graphite & colored pencil on brown wrapping paper, 35 x 28 inches.
Temptation of Eve -- Charles Steffen
Temptation of Eve, 1994 by Charles Steffen (1927-1995)
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Charles Steffen at Andrew Edlin
After suffering a nervous breakdown, the late Chicago artist began to make his surreal graphite and colored pencil portraits on found paper.
After suffering a nervous breakdown, the late Chicago artist began to make his surreal graphite and colored pencil portraits on found paper.
"He never had, as far as I know, any relationship with a woman. So he was naive about drawing female anatomy, so much so that he would just leave it blank."
This week's Chicagoan: Christopher Preissin talks about his uncle, late outsider artist Charles Steffen
Continues thru Mar 10: Guo Fengyi, Sava Sekulic, Charles Steffen Andrew Edlin Gallery, 134 Tenth Ave., NYC (bt 18th & 19th St) The self-taught artists Guo Fengyi (1942 - 2010), Sava Sekulic (1902 - 1989) and Charles Steffen (1927 - 1995) all created works that suggest metamorphosis, depicting the human form in an interim phase between a beginning and a future shape. These otherworldly, transfigured bodies reveal hidden organisms that appear to have been gestating inside their hosts.