The United Gas Pipe Line Company Collection

UGPL 0157 Cohen, E. Lustig, untitled, gouache, 22¼” x 30,” 1972 illus: p 39

UGPL 0160 Cohen, E. Lustig, untitled, gouache, 22¼” x 30,” 1973

Elaine Lustig Cohen (1927- )

Written in 1976 for the catalog and reproduced as printed, with spelling corrected. Not current.

Elaine Lustig Cohen’s distinguished career as a graphic artist began during an association with Alvin Lustig, with whom she shared both a design office and marriage from 1948 until his death in 1955. She married the writer Arthur Cohen in 1956 and has maintained a free-lance design practice, numbering among her clients the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art in Fort Worth, Texas; architect, Philip Johnson; the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D. C.; Eero Saarinen; the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art; and U.S. Embassies in London and Oslo.

She began serious painting in 1966 and has exhibited widely in New York galleries. In 1975 she was awarded an architectural wall commission for the Bronx State School in New York, for which Richard Meier was the architect.

From The Art Collection of United Gas Pipe Line Company (Houston, 1976), curated by Susan Rush.