Mask for the Chairman of the Board of Directors
Maker
Roger Brown
(American, 1941-1997)
Date1974
MediumAcrylic on wood construction with leather thongs
DimensionsOverall: 37 x 9 x 14 in. (94 x 22.9 x 35.6 cm)
Credit LineThe George Veronda Collection
Copyright© The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Brown family.
Collections
Object number1996.16
Status
Not on viewLike many of the Chicago Imagists, Roger Brown attended the School of the Art Institute and would frequently visit the Field Museum to draw inspiration from the Northwest Native American masks and other ethnographic and archaeological artifacts on display there. What would a mask fit for present day corporate America look like? Brown’s mask makes the chairman of the board one with the skyline around him, an anthropomorphic skyscraper complete with eye and mouth flaps.
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