Dorothy B Kushner 1909-2000 Modernist Woodblock of a bird in flight, pencil signed by the artist and numbered 9/15, light toning and slight wrinkles to print, print littlunder 7" X 5" and frame is 11.25" X 9" Dorothy Browdy Kushner (1909-2000), color, light and place were paramount. The dramatic landscape of Southern California, where she produced most of her paintings, prints, and sculpture from the 1940s through 1990s, was a continual source of inspiration. Building on her formal artistic training in New York and the Midwest, her greatest achievement was her synthesis of Modernism with the local subjects and visual character of her environment.