Untitled
Gabriel Kohn
American, 1910–1975
1963
An untitled 1963 lithograph by Gabriel Kohn that translates quick, calligraphic black strokes and flat color shapes into a lively, sketch-like composition.
You first notice the energetic, looping black marks — like a draughtsman’s hand in motion — interrupted by a long ochre diagonal and blocks of blue, gray, and red that float against ample cream negative space.
This print shows how postwar American artists brought the immediacy of gestural drawing into lithography, expanding the medium’s capacity for dynamic, improvisational compositions in the 1960s.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 19 15/16 × 26 7/8" (50.6 × 68.3 cm); sheet: 22 7/16 × 30 1/16" (57 × 76.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Accession
1241.1967
Palette
Art Terms
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