Abstraction #202
- Date
- 1940
- made in
- Chicago, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 22 5/8 x 14 7/8 in. (57.5 x 37.8 cm)
sheet: 23 x 18 1/2 in. (58.4 x 47 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of the Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 202:1943
NOTES
A riot of colors, shapes, and textures fills this sheet. Myron Kozman added “UAA 90” after his signature to indicate his membership in the United American Artists Union. Its national network helped Kozman connect with artists in New York City who had adopted screenprinting as a fine art medium, inspired by poster designs. A child of Russian Jewish immigrants, Kozman experimented with this new technique while studying at Chicago’s Institute of Design. The school’s founder, László Moholy-Nagy, encouraged students to strive for “vision in motion” by designing complex interrelationships of shapes and layering blocks of color to achieve a transparent effect. Kozman later taught in St. Louis at Webster and Lindenwood Universities.
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