Harry Kramer

“Orca” is part of a series of large scale paintings and drawings completed in the early 1970s.

In “Orca”, the largest painting of the series, Kramer employs the dynamics and forces of geometry. He strives to capture the power of the mammal through this geometric formation. Kramer restricts his vocabularly to angles and uses only black and white as a way to focus on this composition. Moreover, the forms are human scale and relate to the size of the person of average height.

Commissioned by the Hudson River Museum and
printed in collaboration with the New York Institute of Technology.