Gallery Edition – Dont gum up a book by Arlington Gregg – 44×56 Interior Architectural Study

Curatorial Narrative Arlington Gregg’s “Don’t gum up a book” (1936) occupies a unique position within the Art Deco movement, where the artist’s mastery of linear brushwork and bold chromatic structure converge to create an atmospheric still life that transcends its modest scale. Here, the palette of red, black, white, and yellow is deployed with calculated restraint, generating a spatial rhythm that oscillates between tension and repose. The Art Deco style, typically associated with opulence and excess, is distilled by Gregg into a spare, Modernist lexicon that privileges clarity over ornamentation.When enlarged to 44×56, the palette of “Don’t gum up a book” assumes an architectural scale, its chromatic structure modulating the spatial depth of the composition. The reds and yellows, now bold and declarative, intersect with the blacks and whites to generate a spatial lattice that organizes the surrounding environment. In a luxury int