Untitled

Gabriel Kohn

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.

Palette

Art Terms

Calligraphy Figure/ground relationship Modern art Lithography Print Abstraction Gestural

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