Two Women and a Girl
Screenprint
composition (irreg.): 15 5/8 × 21 1/4" (39.7 × 54 cm); sheet: 16 3/4 × 21 1/4" (42.6 × 54 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Ruth Gikow
Artist
PaintingAbstract ExpressionismExpressionismRealism
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None documented
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1
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5
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- • Abstract Expressionism
- • Expressionism
- • Realism
- • Figuration
- • Social Realism
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American Color Prints under $10
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1940
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Ruth Gikow was an American painter and printmaker whose work negotiated between social realism and abstract expressionism through gestural mark-making in oil, watercolor, and lithography. Active in postwar New York, she developed a modernist vocabulary rooted in urban observation, balancing figuration and abstraction in equal measure. Her practice exemplifies the formal tensions distinctive to her generation of artists working between representation and abstraction.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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