Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
Max Arthur Cohn came of age as an artist during a period of crisis and reform in American industry. He was born in England and was naturalized as a U.S. citizen. He studied at the Art Students League in New York and at the Academie Colarossi in Paris.
Among the aims of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs were reinvigorating industrial production and giving artists stable work. Cohn was one of thousands of artists employed under the New Deal, and industrial subjects pervade this period of his career. He became a pioneering figure in silkscreen printing (a medium associated with commercial production), co-authoring an influential technical manual and running a successful graphic art business in New York City.
Although Cohn’s oeuvre encompasses a variety of subjects and stylistic approaches, the intersection of art and American industry wends its way throughout his work in both subtle and overt ways. His work can be found in the collections of a wide range of major museums in the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as the British Museum.
Styles: Contemporary/Abstract , Gouache on Paper , Original Art On Paper
“Three Abstract Figures” (1959)
“Seated Figures 1966”
“Black Lines Figures 1972”
“Abstract Figures” (1966)
“Seated Figures 1967”
“Figures 1969”
“Abstraction” (1983)
“Abstract Figures 1983”
“Abstract Figures” (1983)
“Nude Figure 1968”
“Single Nude 1979”
“Three Figures (1973)”
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