Harold Cohn Double-Sided Expressionist Detroit Modernist Painting of a Female Nude and Night Cruise Ship, c.1950's

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This is a two sided painting. Nude reclining woman and a ship lit at night.
Harold Cohn (1908 - 1982)
… Read more This is a two sided painting. Nude reclining woman and a ship lit at night.
Harold Cohn (1908 - 1982)
Harold Cohn was active/lived in New Jersey, Michigan. Harold Cohn is known for modernist sky-landscape painting, lithography, teaching.
Harold Cohn was a painter, designer and lithographer who began exhibiting his art in Detroit around 1930. He studied Detroit Soc. A. & Crafts, with Samuel Halpert, John Carroll. He was strongly influenced by some of the great masters of European modernism, Artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque as well as Max Weber and Milton Avery.
During his career, Harold Cohn explored many elements of modern art. Some of his paintings and drawings are related to Cubism in their manner of construction while others are more closely reminiscent of Matisse. These influences can be seen in many of his drawings and paintings.
His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the country including, The Corcoran Gallery, The Detroit Institute of Arts (1933-45), The Carnegie Institute (1941, 1943), The Los Angeles Museum of Art (1945), The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1934), and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1942). See less