II : 11–12
Three very versatile versions of a glass picture of 1929, Bowers (Lauben), originally in yellow and black on a white ground. In these evolutions there are only three grays and the white of the paper, but these interact in an alive and generous way to produce new groupings, colors, and actions.

Art in its very nature is new in formulation, articulation, though constant in its task to reveal and to arouse emotion. All real art is or was modern in its time, daring and new, demonstrating a constant change in seeing and feeling. If revival had been a perpetual virtue, we still would live in caves and earth pits. In art, tradition is to create, not to revive.

(From “Present and/or Past,” printed in Design, 1946.)