Untitled (Anne Baruch)

This print displays the powerful employment of literal fragmentation within Anderle’s work, including imagery of a portrait of Anne Baruch, a piece of fruit, a skull, and an open heart. The presence of Anne’s portrait may be attributed to the fact that Anne and Jacque Baruch held and displayed a rather substantial amount of Anderle’s work at their Chicago gallery. The Baruchs are responsible for many of the works within the collection of Dr. Eugene Rogolsky, who donated this piece to the USC Fisher Museum. Although the gallery no longer exists, Anne Baruch’s legacy may be preserved in the works of the artists she supported as she wished that their art would, “continue to bring the curiosity and interaction that I have felt as I moved around the works hanging on my walls during different periods of my life.”

[Sabrina Piña-McMahon, wall text in "Suppression, Subversion, and the Surreal: The Art of Czechoslovakian Resistance," USC Fisher Museum of Art, March 9 - May 10, 2019.]