Lamar Baker

Pyromaniac
c. 1936

A black and white lithograph depicting a chaotic scene with three main figures: a man in the foreground reading a newspaper with the headline "FIRE BUG STRIKES CHIEF," a laughing man in the middle ground holding a flaming torch, and a stern-faced police officer in the foreground. The background features a building with windows, suggesting an urban environment. The artwork conveys a sense of disorder and tension, with dynamic lines and contrasting light and shadow.
A black and white lithograph depicting a chaotic scene with three main figures: a man in the foreground reading a newspaper with the headline "FIRE BUG STRIKES CHIEF," a laughing man in the middle ground holding a flaming torch, and a stern-faced police officer in the foreground. The background features a building with windows, suggesting an urban environment. The artwork conveys a sense of disorder and tension, with dynamic lines and contrasting light and shadow.

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Date
c. 1936

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 11/16 × 13 9/16in. (42.4 × 34.4 cm) Image: 13 7/8 × 10 3/4in. (35.2 × 27.3 cm)

Accession number
96.68.6

Series
Aberrations Series

Edition
3/10

Publication
Printed by Will Barnet

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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