1929
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1929 ink by Stefan Hirsch, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This print shows a cityscape with tall, blocky buildings in the middle. The tallest one has a grid pattern on its sides. Trees with bare branches line the bottom, and the sky above has simple shapes that look like flying birds. The colors are mostly gray, white, and black, with a few light yellows. The text at the bottom reads *"Greetings of the Season from Stefan Hirsch,"* so this is a holiday card. The buildings look like they’re made of flat, stacked shapes—almost like a child’s drawing of a city. If you like this style, check out lithography to see how it’s made.
Stefan Hirsch was an American artist. Many of his paintings have the hard edges, smooth surfaces, and simplified forms of the precisionists, and their typical subjects—cityscapes and industrial scenes—are sometimes also…
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