Name: JULIAN S. KRUPA (1913-1989)
Brand: ROBOT GUIDES
Price: 4000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

JULIAN S. KRUPA (1913-1989)
ROBOT GUIDES
signed in monogram JK (lower left)
ink and gouache on paper
9³⁄₄ x 6¹⁄₂ in. sight size (24.7 x 16.5 cm)
Executed in 1939.

Norman Brosterman (b. 1952), New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2001.

Norman Brosterman, Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future (New York, 2000), p. 60, illustrated.

Tacoma, Washington, Washington State Historical Society, Out of Time: Designs for the 20th Century Future, 11 November 2000-7 January 2001; also, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan Historical Museum, 27 January-25 March 2001; New York, New York Historical Society, 14 April-10 June 2001; Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming Art Museum, 30 June-26 August 2001; Fargo, North Dakota, Plains Art Museum, 1 December 2001-27 January 2002; Springfield, Massachusetts, 5 October-1 December 2002.

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Julian Krupa was a popular illustrator in the pulp magazine Amazing Stories and Brosterman states that this drawing was indeed published there. Brosterman also points out that "robots could not compute in the pre-computer 1930s, and in the drawings of Julian Krupa gauges are conveniently located on the robots' chests for quick and easy reading" (p. 61).