SOLD New York City Scene

Max Arthur Cohn is known for his New York City scenes, as well as rural landscapes and abstracted figures. Cohn emigrated to New York as a child in 1905. At seventeen, he found a job in the city creating commercial silkscreens. Cohn would continue experimenting with silkscreen techniques throughout his career, exhibiting his prints in New York City and Washington, DC throughout the 1930s and 1940s. He later ran a small graphic arts business in Manhattan, where he is credited with showing silkscreen techniques to a young Andy Warhol. Cohn would go on to write several books on silkscreening, including