Dancing Figure

Max Weber

1919-20

A small vertical woodcut by Max Weber that presents a stylized nude dancer, using simplified, rhythmic shapes to capture movement and a decorative modern sensibility.

You first notice a narrow, dark-framed panel filled with flattened warm flesh tones, angular hands and a mask-like face, where body and motion are compressed into a mosaic of blocks and marks.

Dating from his American modernist phase, the print fuses Cubist abstraction, folk-derived carving, and expressive ornamentation, helping to expand early 20th‑century American printmaking toward bold, decorative abstraction.

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Art Terms

Abstraction Cubism Figurative Dance Woodcut Print Relief print Modern art

Exhibitions

Max Weber, 1881–1961: In Memoriam

1961

Recent American Woodcuts and Prints by Marin, Hopper and Weber

1952

The Nude: Thirty 20th-Century Drawings

1970

American Prints from the International Program

1971