Untitled

Gabriel Kohn

1963

This 1963 lithograph presents a page of energetic, sketchlike studies in which the artist works out small abstract, joinable three‑dimensional components—as if designing a sculpture or a piece of furniture.

You first notice a scatter of bold, hand‑drawn modules—curved blocks, notches, arrows and crossed‑out variants—rendered in black and white against a warm tan ground so that the rough highlights and decisive marks read like a designer’s working diagram.

By publishing a working sheet as a print, Kohn foregrounds the process of making—bridging mid‑century industrial design, sculptural abstraction, and the idea that drawings can reveal creative decisions as powerfully as finished objects.

Palette

Art Terms

Lithography Print Abstraction Design Industrial design Sketch Sculpture Modern art

Exhibitions

Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes

1941

American Prints from the International Program

1971

American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

1969

American Prints: 1913–1963

1974