Curatorial Narrative In the midst of the tumultuous 1930s, Eric Rohman’s “Marked Girls” distills the essence of Art Deco’s angular modernity while subtly subverting its typical associations with glamour and spectacle. The work’s creation in 1939 positions it as a pivotal moment within the Art Deco movement, one that simultaneously engages with and resists the period’s dominant visual tropes. Rohman’s linear brushwork imbues the subjects with an almost sculptural quality, their faces and bodies reduced to geometric planes and sharp contours that slice through the composition like shards of glass.As the painting expands to its monumental scale, the interplay between color and space becomes increasingly pronounced. The stark black, white, red, and yellow palette assumes a tactile quality, as if the very materiality of the paint has been amplified by the larger format. In this configuration, “Marked Girls” exercises a commanding presenc