Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters Edward Hopper This striking early 20th-century zoological

This striking early 20th-century zoological garden poster depicts a baboon with the bold

It shows his wife Suzanne

Henry Hu renders the macro world with a cool

the kind of image that holds attention because it commits fully to its own absurd logic without ever winking at the viewer

the work's intricate linework

Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters Edward Hopper This striking early 20th-century zoologicalPlate 7 closes the Merz 3 lithograph series with a composition of considered restraint angular forms hold against soft ground, and the interplay of positive and negative space gives the work an open, almost meditative quality. Where earlier plates in the series lean toward visual density, Pl7 breathes. It is a fitting end to a portfolio that mapped the full range of Schwitters' graphic imagination, from accumulation to economy, within the Merz