1894-1964. US abstract painter. He used 
hard-edged geometric shapes in primary 
colours and experimented with collage. Much 
of his work shows the influence of jazz
tempos. In the 1920s he produced paintings of 
commercial packaging, such as Lucky Strike 
1921 (Museum of Modern Art, New York), that 
foreshadow Pop art. His early abstracts 
reflect the impact of Cubism, and he was 
deeply influenced by the Armory Show in New 
York 1913. He often used numbers or letters 
as the focus for his compositions.