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Paris: May-June

1968

Mavis Pusey

(American, 1928–2019)
Culture
America
Medium
color screenprint
Measurements
Image: 109.2 x 83.8 cm (43 x 33 in.)
Credit Line
The Charlotte Ekker and Charlotte Van der Veer Memorial Fund 2019.229
Edition
8/14
Copyright
© Mavis Pusey
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Mavis Pusey originally planned to study fashion design, and this interest can be seen in the patterned and repeated lines of this print.

Description

The African American artist Mavis Pusey developed a distinctive style of geometric abstraction beginning in the 1960s, amidst a field that was dominated at the time by white male painters. She studied with the master printer Robert Blackburn, who encouraged the experimentation seen in this print. With its bright colors and contrasts between rigid and undulating lines, Pusey hoped to express her experiences visiting Paris during a period of student and worker uprisings in 1968.

Paris: May-June

1968

Mavis Pusey

(American, 1928–2019)
America

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