French Jug
Max Weber
American, born Russia. 1881–1961
1930
A lithographic still life in which Max Weber reduces a jug and fruit to bold, simplified masses, using energetic marks to explore form, weight, and rhythm.
What hits you first is the raw, black brushlike strokes that flatten and model the objects at once—broad areas of ink and quick hatchings make the jug and rounded forms feel both heavy and abstracted within a compressed space.
The print shows how American modernists adapted Cubist and painterly ideas to printmaking, proving that lithography could carry the immediacy of gesture and help bring European avant-garde vocabularies into U.S. art.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition: 9 1/8 x 7 5/16" (23.1 x 18.5cm); sheet: 11 7/8 x 10 13/16" (30.1 x 27.4 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession
1514.1940
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