Portrait of W.H.
c. 1982
Michael Hurson American, 1941-2007
United States
Trained at the School of the Art Institute, Michael Hurson spent the bulk of his career in New York. In the 1980s he created a group of large portrait drawings, conflating Cubist fracturing of space with comedic graphic conventions. This portrait of the Chicago collector Will Hokin was first exhibited at the museum in 1984.
Pastel and charcoal with stumping and watercolor, squared in blue pencil, on ivory wove paper