20 UMMA Objects
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This sparely executed lithograph depicts, from left to right, a young boy, an aged man in a hat, and an aged woman in a shawl looking at the food on display in a shop window, bananas, cheese, sausage, and wine, among other items.
George Grosz (German (culture or style))
Hunger
1924
Museum Purchase
1957/1.105
In front, a woman wearing a hat depicted in profile faces to the left with three male figures behind her, one of which, depicted in profile and facing to the right, has the top of his head cut off; the background is comprised of architectural and figural fragments.
George Grosz (German (culture or style))
Streetscene (Strassenszene)
1919 – 1920
Museum Purchase
1948/1.60
There are two separate drawings. The first is a colorful drawing of a gathering of people wearing formal attire. They are depicted as caricatures, with large heads. The other image is a sketch of three people, side by side. On the left, a woman is shown from the back; she wears a coat, hat, high heeled shoes, and carries an umbrella under her right arm. There is a man in the center, shown from the side. He is mid-step, and wears a coat, hat, and boots; he has a mustache. The sketch on the right appears to show the same woman that is depicted on the left, but from a side angle.
George Grosz (German (culture or style))
The Gay Cafe
20th century
Gift of the Lannan Foundation in Honor of the Pelham Family
1997/1.90

George Grosz (German (culture or style))
Religion of the Sword
1924 – 1927
Gift of Helmut Stern
1991/2.76
Smiling woman, slightly hunched and looking out at viewer, in see-through negligee pulling up her left stocking.
George Grosz (German (culture or style))
Woman in Negligee
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection
2007/2.80
5 men sitting, in various states of watching. 1 man in first "row," in hat, facing left with arms crossed. In 2nd row, three men - (l) head in hands, legs crossed; (c) man in suit and hat, looking at viewer, hand in groin; (r) slumped figure in hat and suit, spectacles, covers groin, looks at ground. 1 man in last row, in hat, looks to the left.
George Grosz (German (culture or style))
The Onlookers (Die Zuschauer)
1915 – 1916
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection
2007/2.120
A man clothed in pants, shoes, and a long-sleeved shirt sits at a small table with his hands folded. Part of a loaf of bread sits on the upper left corner of the table. The man is in a small room with a small, square, barred window high on the wall behind him. There is a toilet without a lid behind him to his left.
George Grosz (German (culture or style))
In Prison
1918
Gift of Herbert Barrows
2000/2.224

George Grosz (German (culture or style))
A Dream
1914
Museum Purchase
1970/1.188
Man and woman at table. Man central figure, from top to bottom of image, with his right leg resting on his left knee and his face turned to look out, left. Man identified by detailed masculine face, short hair, pants and shirt with heeled shoes. Woman identified by skirt, heeled shoe, and hat. Only one foot visible, as she sits with her back to us. She is much smaller than the man's figure. Table has no visible support, no visible chairs, though figures appear to be sitting.
George Grosz (German (culture or style))
Couple
1915
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection
2007/2.109
Pen and ink drawing of nude woman, presumably dead or in the act of dying, stretched between floor and chair, with a man bending over her head and torso. In interior domestic space.
George Grosz (German (culture or style))
A Murder
1912 – 1913
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection
2007/2.110
A sketching of a dour looking, mostly bald man standing with hands to his sides and feet pointed outward. To the viewer's right, there is an assembly of faces, bodies, and architectural elements climbing upward and into the background.
George Grosz (German (culture or style))
Der Zuchthäusler
1900 – 1950
Gift of Virginia and Eric Stein
2016/2.348
A group of laborers, wearing hats and jackets, walks from viewer's right to left along a street littered with garbage. The two in the front carry shovels. In the background is an industrial landscape, dirty and in disrepair.
George Grosz (German (culture or style))
Ants (Ameisen), from "In the Shadows" ("Im Schatten")
1920
Gift of Jean Paul Slusser
1948/1.22
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