The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Paris: May-June

1968

Mavis Pusey

(American, 1928–2019)
America
color screenprint
Image: 109.2 x 83.8 cm (43 x 33 in.)
The Charlotte Ekker and Charlotte Van der Veer Memorial Fund 2019.229
© Mavis Pusey
Location: Not on view

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.
  • 2019
    Estate of the Artist [1928-2019]
    2019
    (Brock and Co., Concord, MA, sold to G.W. Einstein Company, Inc.)
    2019
    (G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2019-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Women in Print: Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-June 19, 2022).
  • {{cite web|title=Paris: May-June|url=false|author=Mavis Pusey|year=1968|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.229