Untitled

Gabriel Kohn

1963

A 1963 lithograph in which Gabriel Kohn uses a torn, irregular black mass offset by a vertical blue stripe and a small red block to distill painting into flat shapes and color tensions.

What strikes you is the contrast between the rough, almost sculptural silhouette of the black form and the clean, vivid blue column and red accent floating on the pale paper, creating an uneasy but gripping balance.

The work sits within mid‑century reductive abstraction and collage-influenced printmaking, showing how lithography could carry painterly concerns of edge, scale, and color into a graphic, pared‑down vocabulary.

Palette

Art Terms

Lithography Print Abstraction Collage Figure/ground relationship Color Field painting

Exhibitions

Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes

1941

American Prints from the International Program

1971

Committed to Print

1988

American Prints: 1913–1963

1974