György Kepes

György Kepes

1906 — 2001

Hungarian artist (1906–2001)

György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus in Chicago. In 1967 he founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.

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Folding Cartons Plus, from the Early Series

György Kepes Smithsonian American Art Museum

Paperboard Goes to War, from the Early Series

György Kepes Smithsonian American Art Museum

Replacement Packaging, from the Early Series

György Kepes Smithsonian American Art Museum

Sheen of Order

György Kepes Yale University Art Gallery

The City

György Kepes San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Monument

György Kepes Smithsonian American Art Museum

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong...For neither in war nor yet at law ought I or any man t

György Kepes Smithsonian American Art Museum

Distant View

György Kepes Dallas Museum of Art

"There are other forms of culture beside physical science; and I should be profoundly sorry to see the fact forgotten, or even to observe a tendency to starve, or cripple, literary, or aesthetic, culture for the sake of

György Kepes Smithsonian American Art Museum

Large and Small

György Kepes Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Random Patterns

György Kepes Harvard Art Museums

Earth Archive

György Kepes Smithsonian American Art Museum

Patina

György Kepes Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Tender Space

György Kepes Whitney Museum of American Art

Descending Light

György Kepes Harvard Art Museums

Silver Dew

György Kepes Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Troubled Mirror

György Kepes Indianapolis Museum of Art

Untitled

György Kepes Rhode Island School of Design Museum

Baby Eclipse

György Kepes Yale University Art Gallery

Serene and Aloof

György Kepes Cleveland Museum of Art

Spring Promise

György Kepes Worcester Art Museum

Tender Vigil

György Kepes Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Vagabond Tones

Innocent Echo

György Kepes Harvard Art Museums

Anemone Quilt

György Kepes Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum