György Kepes, Abstraction, Gelatin silver print, 1942

GYÖRGY KEPES (1906-2001) Hungary/USA

Abstraction 1942

Silver gelatin print

Signed: 9 (in a circle, on back); Gyorgy Kepes 1942 (in ink on back)

György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1947 He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.

Framed size: H: 29 3/16” x W: 25 ¼”