Sketchbook
Catalogue
- Year
- 1935
- Dimensions
- sketchbook, closed: 3 9/16 × 5 1/2 × 3/16" (9 × 14 × 0.5 cm); sheet (each, orientations vary): 3 1/2 × 5 5/16" (8.9 × 13.5 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- John D. Graham
Artist
Painting
John D. Graham was an American painter and theorist whose work bridged European modernism and American abstraction in the mid-twentieth century. Born in 1886, he developed a practice rooted in Cubism and Surrealism, producing paintings that combined geometric abstraction with figural and symbolic content. Graham's writings on art theory, particularly his 1937 treatise System and Dialectics of Art, established him as an influential voice in advancing avant-garde practice among American artists during the interwar and postwar periods.
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- John D. Graham
- Year
- 1935
- Dimensions
- sketchbook, closed: 3 9/16 × 5 1/2 × 3/16" (9 × 14 × 0.5 cm); sheet (each, orientations vary): 3 1/2 × 5 5/16" (8.9 × 13.5 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1935-M033131
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
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- Status
- verified