Woman Holding Cats by Edward Penfield Something New - Gallery Walls shows Van Doesburg working squarely

shows Van Doesburg working squarely within the De Stijl vocabulary he helped establish — primary colours distributed across a grid of black-outlined rectangles on a white ground

There is a sense of playfulness here

while the controlled palette — warm neutrals meeting sharp accents — conveys both the grandeur and the geometric precision of the original form

and designed to command attention on the wall

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Woman Holding Cats by Edward Penfield Something New - Gallery Walls shows Van Doesburg working squarelyIn this characteristically bold work, Edward Penfield presents a composed woman cradling two cats in the flattened, confident style that defined American graphic illustration of the 1890s. Strong outlines contain areas of unmodulated colour warm ochres, deep greens, muted creams arranged with the economy of a master poster designer. There is an effortless ease in the subject's posture, and in Penfield's refusal to overwork the image. The result is a