Night Flight

Theodore Roszak

1907-1981

Born in Poznan, Poland

Died in New York City, NY

1957

Ink wash on paper

53 1/4 x 67 inches (sheet)
47 x 61 inches (image)

Purchase, Acquisition Fund

70.13.01

The title of the work was likely inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Vol de Nuit, a narration written in 1931 about the nocturnal flights of mail planes in South America. This practice was a considered a dangerous phase of early aviation. (Source: Joan Marter, Theodore Roszak: The Drawings, p. 53.)

Marter, Joan. Theodore Roszak: The Drawings, p. 52, illus. p. 53. New York, NY: The Drawing Society, Inc., 1992.

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