Artist Monograph

György Kepes, American

American, born Hungary. 1906–2001

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Photography	7	77.8%
Other Media	1	11.1%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Photography	7	77.8%
Architecture & Design	2	22.2%

Production by Decade

5

1930s

2

1940s

1

1950s

1

1980s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	4	44.4%
Medium (30–100 cm)	5	55.6%

Range: 15.9 cm → 49.5 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1954	1
1959	1
1960	1
1964	2
1999	1
2001	1
2013	1
2015	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 9 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Film als Kunst Design Acc. 708.1999	1930s		6 1/4 x 3 3/4" (15.9 x 9.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Jan Tschichold Collection, Gift of Philip Johnson
Street Pavers, Berlin Photograph Acc. 509.2013	1931	Gelatin silver print	6 3/8 × 4 7/16" (16.2 × 11.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Abbott-Levy Collection funds, by exchange
Abstraction Photograph Acc. 256.1959	1938	Gelatin silver print	13 7/8 × 11 1/16" (35.3 × 28.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Juliet's Shadow Caged Photograph Acc. 1713.2001	1938–39	Gelatin silver print	8 3/8 × 6 3/4" (21.2 × 17.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Russell Lynes, Isaac Lagnado, and György Kepes, by exchange
Monuments Photograph Acc. 80.1964	1939	Gelatin silver print	14 × 11 1/8" (35.6 × 28.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Abstraction Photograph Acc. 476.1960	1940	Gelatin silver print	sight 19 3/8 × 15 1/16" (49.2 × 38.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Abstraction–Surface Tension #2 Photograph Acc. 79.1964	c. 1940	Gelatin silver print	14 × 11 1/8" (35.6 × 28.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Abstraction Photograph Acc. 576.1953	1951	Gelatin silver print	15 3/4 × 19 1/2" (40 × 49.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
György Kepes letterhead (Letter to Arthur Cohen) Design Acc. 1225.2015	1982	Letterpress	11 × 8 1/2" (27.9 × 21.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Elaine Lustig Cohen Collection, gift of Lawrence Benenson and the Committee on Architecture and Design Funds