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The Morse Historic Design Lecture | Ilonka Karasz: Elusive Modernist

Though best known for her covers for The New Yorker and home furnishings of the late 1920s, Ilonka Karasz (1896–1981) expressed her modernist voice in a remarkable range of media, from wallpapers to railroad china, children’s chairs to book jackets, printed silks to paintings. She arrived in New York from Hungary in 1913, and worked as an artist and designer for over half a century, continually finding new outlets for her talent. Despite extensive acclaim during her life, Karasz and the breadth of her career are not well known today. Independent curator and scholar Ashley Callahan, who began researching Karasz twenty years ago, will present an overview of this innovative polymath’s career. The talk coincides with the opening of an exhibition of Karasz’s work at Cooper Hewitt, featuring objects from the museum’s permanent collection.











When: Thu., Oct. 12, 2017 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E. 91st St.
212-489-8404
Price: $10–$20
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Though best known for her covers for The New Yorker and home furnishings of the late 1920s, Ilonka Karasz (1896–1981) expressed her modernist voice in a remarkable range of media, from wallpapers to railroad china, children’s chairs to book jackets, printed silks to paintings. She arrived in New York from Hungary in 1913, and worked as an artist and designer for over half a century, continually finding new outlets for her talent. Despite extensive acclaim during her life, Karasz and the breadth of her career are not well known today. Independent curator and scholar Ashley Callahan, who began researching Karasz twenty years ago, will present an overview of this innovative polymath’s career. The talk coincides with the opening of an exhibition of Karasz’s work at Cooper Hewitt, featuring objects from the museum’s permanent collection.

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