Two Women and a Girl
Screenprint
composition (irreg.): 15 5/8 × 21 1/4" (39.7 × 54 cm); sheet: 16 3/4 × 21 1/4" (42.6 × 54 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Ruth Gikow
Artist
WA-00027270
PaintingAbstract ExpressionismExpressionismRealism
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American Color Prints under $10
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1940
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Ruth Gikow was an American painter and printmaker whose work negotiated between social realism and abstract expressionism through gestural mark-making in oil, watercolor, and lithography. Active in postwar New York, she developed a modernist vocabulary rooted in urban observation, balancing figuration and abstraction in equal measure. Her practice exemplifies the formal tensions distinctive to her generation of artists working between representation and abstraction.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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