My Room-Bright Night
1993 · Lithograph
Museum of Modern Art
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Karl Schrag
1912
Karlsruhe, Germany
PrintmakingExpressionismFiguration
Representation
None documented
6
Institutional Exhibitions
58
Works in Collection
100
Assets Indexed
7
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Expressionism
- • Figuration
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Prints: Acquisitions 1977�1981
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981–1982
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American Prints: 1913�1963
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974–1975
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Tamarind: Homage to Lithography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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American Prints of the 20th Century
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Why this artist matters now
Karl Schrag was an American printmaker and painter whose work emerged from postwar abstraction and gestural mark-making. Working primarily in lithography and etching, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of energetic, layered lines and forms that occupied the space between figuration and abstraction. His prints and paintings demonstrated a commitment to the expressive potential of the printing matrix itself, treating each work as an investigation of material and process rather than reproductive technique.
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Representation & Collections
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Selected Credits
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