11:05 to Chicago

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11:05 to Chicago

Artist Richard Bosman (American, born 1944)

Date1983

DimensionsH: 60 1/4 in. (153 cm); W: 60 1/8 in. (152.5 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. John T. Chiles

Object number

1989.116

Not on View

Label Text“I get an idea from an image in a comic book, and then I paint it in a sort of abstract expressionistic style. I guess that I am interested in those iconographies not for cultural reasons, but because it's like telling a story in a mythological way.” — Richard Bosman Mystery and adventure lie just beneath the surface in Richard Bosman’s quickly brushed paintings. Whose gun is it? Why is it falling from a train? What has just happened on the train? Is it significant that it’s traveling to Chicago, per the title? Bosman uses an exaggerated, cartoon-like style reminiscent of comic books to present powerful images related to crime and catastrophe. His subjects both disturb and entertain, suggesting why he became one of the most important narrative artists to emerge in the 1980s.Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art 1989-90 Annual Report, Toledo, 1990, p. 19, repr. (col.).Exhibition HistoryPotsdam, New York, Brainerd Art Gallery, State University of Arts and Sciences, Expressionism, 1984.