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B. Jersey City, 1927
D. New York City, 2016
Elaine Lustig Cohen was a New York–based, artist, graphic designer, archivist and rare book dealer.
Elaine lustig cohen artist portland
At the start of her art career in the late 1960s, Lustig Cohen created hard-edged, vibrantly colored geometric abstractions that reflected her modernist architectural aesthetic. By the 1990s, her work had evolved into lively, playful compositions that incorporated collage, photography and typography and reflected her ever-expanding curiosity about history, art, literature and nature.
Lustig Cohen studied art at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans and transferred to the University of Southern California, where she received a bachelor’s degree in art education in 1948. While in Los Angeles, she met her first husband, the design pioneer Alvin Lustig, who introduced her to graphic design.
After his death at the age of 40 in 1955, she took over his design practice. Her first solo project was designing the signage for Phillip Johnson’s Seag