Red Beast
Catalogue
- Year
- 1961
- Dimensions
- Image: 63.5 × 79 cm (25 × 31 1/8 in.); Sheet: 74.5 × 104.5 cm (29 3/8 × 41 3/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Misch Kohn
Artist
Printmaking
Misch Kohn was an American printmaker and painter whose practice centered on intaglio techniques, particularly engraving and etching. Working from the 1940s onward, he developed a distinctive approach to abstract and semi-abstract compositions that engaged deeply with the formal possibilities of the printing plate as both tool and conceptual medium. His postwar work bridged European modernist traditions with American gestural abstraction, employing rich linear vocabularies and tonal complexity. Kohn's investigations into printmaking processes established him as a significant figure in mid-century American graphic arts.
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Black Warrior Basin
1980 · Engraving, drypoint, embossing, chine collé with found objects, rainbow-roll and color woodcut on ivory wove paper
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1976 · Sugar-lift aquatint, etching, and repoussé on buff China, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)
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1976 · Sugar-lift ground aquatint etching, engraving, silver leaf, rainbow-roll and color woodcut chine collé on heavy cream Japanese paper
Numbers
1974 · Color woodcut, overprinted with metal type engraving, rainbow-roll on gray wove paper
Untitled (Janis Joplin and Mies van der Rohe)
1971 · Lithograph and photo-etching serigraph on white wove paper
Dark Bird
1970 · Sugar-lift ground aquatint etching done in relief on white China paper
Record
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- Misch Kohn
- Year
- 1961
- Dimensions
- Image: 63.5 × 79 cm (25 × 31 1/8 in.); Sheet: 74.5 × 104.5 cm (29 3/8 × 41 3/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1961-112527
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified