Max Arthur Cohn
British artist and painter

Max Arthur Cohn

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British artist and painter
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Max Cohn
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United KingdomGreat Britain
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Arts
Birth:
1903(London, England, UK)
Death:
1998(New York City, New York, USA)
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Max Arthur Cohn (1903–1998) was an American artist, born in England. His family emigrated to the United States when he was two years old.

Cohn was one of the artists employed by the New Deal's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression, painting for the Easel Project and the Public Works of Art Project. At this period he took up silk screening, a technique he had learned in a commercial art studio in 1920. In 1940, Cohn, Anthony Velonis, and other artists co-founded the National Serigraph Society. Cohn is credited with introducing a young Andy Warhol to silkscreen techniques.

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Cohn's works are in MoMa New York, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Philadelphia Museum. With Jacob Israel Biegeleisen he authored Silk Screen Stenciling as a Fine Art (1942), expanded to Silk Screen Techniques (1958).