Louis Schanker

Study for WNYC Mural
1937

A vibrant abstract painting featuring a dynamic composition of overlapping musical instruments, including strings and keyboards, depicted with swirling lines and bright colors against a predominantly blue background. The artwork is signed at the bottom right.
A vibrant abstract painting featuring a dynamic composition of overlapping musical instruments, including strings and keyboards, depicted with swirling lines and bright colors against a predominantly blue background. The artwork is signed at the bottom right.

Not on view

Date
1937

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Opaque watercolor on board

Dimensions
Sheet (board, irregular): 15 3/16 × 40 1/4in. (38.6 × 102.2 cm) Image: 10 1/2 × 41 1/4in. (26.7 × 104.8 cm)

Accession number
86.52

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gigi and Dan Brewster

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/5978

Louis Schanker
11 works in the collection

View artist

On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

Learn more about this project

Learn more at whitney.org/artport

On the Hour projects can contain motion and sound. To respect your accessibility settings autoplay is disabled.