Untitled
Gabriel Kohn
American, 1910–1975
1963
A 1963 lithograph in which Gabriel Kohn pares forms down to a washed, vertical beige field punctuated by spare black gestures and a single scumbled red mark, aiming to balance calligraphic line with painterly surface.
At first you register the soft, striated beige wash across the page, then a loose, tilted rectangular outline and a long curving line that arc toward a vivid, rubbed red oval—simple elements that together feel airy, tentative, and quietly charged.
This work sits within mid‑century American abstraction and demonstrates how lithography could capture the immediacy of brush and pen, helping prints to function not just as reproductions but as original, painterly gestures in multiples.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition and sheet: 26 1/16 × 22 3/16" (66.2 × 56.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Accession
1244.1967
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