Two Sisters

Two Sisters

John D. GrahamWW-1944-M069697

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Year
1944
Dimensions
47 7/8 x 48" (121.4 x 121.8 cm)

Artist

John D. Graham
John D. Graham

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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Year
1944
Dimensions
47 7/8 x 48" (121.4 x 121.8 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1944-M069697

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Source
moma
Status
verified

Artist

John D. Graham

John D. Graham

Painting

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