Untitled from American Abstract Artists
1937 · One from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs
composition (irreg.): 7 1/16 × 3 9/16" (18 × 9 cm); sheet: 12 × 9 1/4" (30.5 × 23.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Paul Kelpe
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PaintingConstructivism
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4
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9
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Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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New Horizons in American Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1936
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Paul Kelpe was an American painter and printmaker whose abstract compositions combined geometric forms with subtle chromatic modulation. Working across oil, watercolor, and lithography from the 1920s through the 1980s, he developed a formal vocabulary rooted in constructivist principles and color theory. His work navigated between pure abstraction and lyrical restraint, avoiding both geometric dogmatism and expressive excess.
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