Daniel Massen ‘Untitled’ 1959.
Massen produced the most severe and mature non-objective oils in Chicago in the 1940s and 1950s. Massen was closely associated with Lazslo Moholy-Nagy and The New Bauhaus in Chicago where he taught in the 1940s. His work is featured prominently in the new book `American Abstract Art of the 1930s and 1940s` published by Harry Abrams Publishers, New York.
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