Untitled

Gabriel Kohn

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.

Palette

Art Terms

Abstraction Lithography Print Gestural Drawing Improvisation

Exhibitions

Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes

1941

American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

1969

American Prints from the International Program

1971

American Prints, 1960–1985

1987