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Geometric Abstraction
ca. 1937
A founding member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) group, Charles Green Shaw studied architecture for a year at Columbia University, then chronicled theater and café society as a freelance writer for the New Yorker, Smart Set, and Vanity Fair. After taking a course at the Art Students League in New York with Thomas Hart Benton and George Luks, Shaw traveled to Europe, where he encountered and was inspired by European modernist styles such as Cubism. Revealing the formative influence of such styles, Geometric Abstraction reflects Shaw’s insistence that “abstract art can express life without using life’s images, and can create breath-taking beauty by the imaginative use of line and color.”
- Artist
- Charles Green Shaw
- Title
- Geometric Abstraction
- Date
- ca. 1937
- Object Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30 x 18 in. (76.2 x 45.7 cm)
- Credit Line
- The Harriet and Maurice Gregg Collection of American Abstract Art
- Accession Number
- 2007.96