It’s not surprising that Barbara Lynch Zinkel was a textile artist before moving on to printmaking, working out ideas of composition and color in weavings. Her geometric forms often have a very tactile presence that lifts them off the page, despite their graphic flatness.
After earning a BA in political science at UC Berkeley in the late 1960s, the American artist studied at Wayne State University, in Detroit, with Robert Kidd, who had been head of fiber arts at Cranbrook Academy of Art, the legendary Bloomfield Hills institution that became the go-to art school for mid-century modernist masters such as Charles and Ray Eames, Harry Bertoia and Florence Knoll.
Zinkel was deeply fixated on color, playing different hues off one another for a variety of dramatic effects. A 1994 silkscreen titled Burgundy Blue is one of several directly inspired by German-born color theorist — and Bauhaus educator — Josef Albers’s legendary “Homage to the Square,” a series of paintings begun in 1950 that investigate the perceptual mutations produced when colors are juxtaposed in nested squares.
But Zinkel reveals much more of her hand in her slightly imperfect geometric forms and staggered edges. The effect is refreshingly lively and personal.
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Imperial Red, Colorful Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel inspired by the Josef Albers "Homage to the Square". Date: 1994 Medium: Screenprint, estate stamped verso an...
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Rainbow II, Colorful Geometric Screenprint by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel. Date: 1991 Medium: Screenprint, numbered in pencil lower left, estate stamped verso Edition: 250 Image Size...
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Homage to the Square (Summer), Geometric Screenprint by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Minimalist screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, inspired by Josef Albers' iconic "Homage to the Square". Date: 1987 Medium: Scr...
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Inspiration, Colorful Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel. Date: 1994 Medium: Screenprint, numbered in pencil, estate stamped in pen...
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Reverie, Colorful Geometric Screenprint by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, signed and numbered in pencil. Date: 1992 Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered, dated and titled in pencil...
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Burgundy Blue, Colorful Geometric Screenprint by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel inspired by the Josef Albers "Homage to the Square". Date: 1994 Medium: Screenprint, estate stamped verso an...
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$600
Shadows I, Colorful Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel. Date: 1991 Medium: Screenprint, estate stamped verso and numbered in pe...
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$1,800
Detroit Renaissance, Large Abstract Silkscreen by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, signed and numbered in pencil. Date: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered, dated and titled in pencil...
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Sunset, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel. Date: 1994 Medium: Screenprint, estate stamped verso and numbered in pe...
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Dallas, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, signed and numbered in pencil. Date: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed, ...
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Sunrise, Colorful Geometric Screenprint by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel. Date: circa 1990 Medium: Screenprint, estate stamped verso and numbered...
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$1,250
Wildwood, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, estate stamped and numbered in pencil. Date: circa 1990 Medium: Screenp...
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Astral Obelisk, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, signed and numbered in pencil. Date: 1978 Medium: Screenprint, numbered...
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Shadow II, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, signed and numbered in pencil. Date: 1991 Medium: Screenprint, signed, ...
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$600
Rainbow I, Colorful Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, signed and numbered in pencil. Date: 1991 Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered, dated and titled in pencil...
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Triangles in the Air, Abstract Minimalist Screenprint by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
An abstract screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel. Date: 1981 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 28 x 25.5 inches Size : 32.5 ...
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"Grids and Color Plate #41" by Sol Lewitt
By Sol LeWitt
Located in Hinsdale, IL
SOL LEWITT (1928 – 2007) Grids and Color Plate #41 Silkscreen in colors on Arches 88 paper, c. 1979 Impression 8 of an edition of 10 wit...
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$750
H 8 in W 8 in
A Square with Four Squares Cut Away, rubber stamp print on Cambersand paper #917
By Robert Mangold
Located in New York, NY
Robert Mangold A Square with Four Squares Cut Away, 1976 Numbered on the back Rubber stamp print on custom cut Cambersand paper Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc. Printed by...
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Del Mar, from Race Track Series
By Frank Stella
Located in Miami, FL
Del Mar, from Race Track Series 1972 Screenprint 20 1/4 x 80 in. Edition of 75 Pencil signed, dated, and numbered Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant in ...
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Magic Rainbow II, Limited Edition Signed Print
By Yaacov Agam
Located in San Rafael, CA
Yaacov Agam (b. 1928) Magic Rainbow II, late 20th century Screenprint in colors on wove paper LXIII/XC (edition 63/90) Signed and numbered in pencil along lower edge 13 x 15...
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$1,800
H 20.5 in W 16 in
"Lily of the Valley 2" by Clare Rojas (Abstract, Floral, Flower, Gilded)
By Clare Rojas
Located in New York, NY
Clare Rojas has created 'Lily of the Valley 2', a four color screenprint, as a limited edition of 36 to celebrate Lincoln Center’s 2026 Summer for the City festival. The image disti...
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Red Square
By Josef Albers
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Josef Albers (1888-1976) is affiliated with numerous movements that have defined 20th century art. Historians credit Albers with fusing elements of American and European abstraction ...
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Lana 2
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden Lana 2 1966 Screenprint on paper 20 x 24 inches; 51 x 61 cm Edition of 11 Signed, titled, and numbered in graphite (lower recto) This silkscreen was printed by Brice...
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Untitled: Blue & Green Geometric Abstract (Edition 20/100)
Located in New York, NY
Unknown/ Unidentified Artist Signature, "Untitled: Blue & Green Geometric Abstract" Edition 20/100, Geometric Abstract Serigraph numbered and signed...
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"Grids and Color Plate #44" by Sol Lewitt
By Sol LeWitt
Located in Hinsdale, IL
SOL LEWITT (1928 – 2007) Grids and Color Plate #40 Silkscreen in colors on Arches 88 paper, c. 1979 Impression 8 of an edition of 10 wit...
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"Lincoln Center" by Sol Lewitt
By Sol LeWitt
Located in Hinsdale, IL
SOL LEWITT (1928 – 2007) Lincoln Center Color screenprint on Somerset Satin White,1998. Sheet size: 35 1/2x28 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 73/108 in pencil, lower ri...
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Whichcup 1979
By Michael Challenger
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Challenger's work is a powerful interplay of op-art and constructivism. His graphic work evokes the counter- play of shapes, forms and color of his predecessors, including Albers an...
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$3,962
H 19.77 in W 19.77 in
Sarah Morris, Total Lunar Eclipse - Signed Print, Abstract Art, Geometric Art
By Sarah Morris
Located in Hamburg, DE
Sarah Morris (American, born 1967) Total Lunar Eclipse, 2012 Medium: Screenprint in colors Dimensions: 50.2 × 50.2 cm (19 3/4 × 19 3/4 in) Edition of 108: Hand-signed and numbered Co...
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Sunset, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel. Date: 1994 Medium: Screenprint, estate stamped verso and numbered in penc...
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H 30 in W 30.5 in
Burgundy Blue, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel inspired by the Josef Albers "Homage to the Square". Date: 1994 Medium: Screenprint, estate stamped verso an...
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Imperial Red, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel inspired by the Josef Albers "Homage to the Square". Date: 1994 Medium: ...
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Shadow I, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, signed and numbered in pencil. Date: 1991 Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered, dated and titled in pencil...
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Rainbow II, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, signed and numbered in pencil. Date: 1991 Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered, dated and titled in pencil...
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Rainbow II, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, signed and numbered in pencil (11/250) Date: 1991 Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered, dated and titled i...
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Rainbow I, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, signed and numbered in pencil (11/250) Date: 1991 Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered, dated and titled i...
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H 32 in W 32 in
Homage to the Square (Spring), Geometric Screenprint by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
By Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Minimalist screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel, inspired by Josef Albers' iconic "Homage to the Square". Date: 1987 Medium: Scr...
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