A study in automatic line, Lily Ascher Neogy used her time at Atelier 17 in New York to hone the skills she had been developing at the Cooper Union under Leo Katz. Ascher Neogy was also a student of dance, and she took to the new, experimental printmaking style as a form of expression that had similar roots as Modern dance, with an emphasis on freedom of movement and expression. In this untitled abstract composition, her love of engraving’s physicality is clear, and it emerges an emblematic image from a pioneering era in printmaking.