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For the first three decades of her career, Cunz specialized in lithographs and woodcuts, especially color woodcuts printed using a
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The last of her 71 woodcuts was made in 1927, and her last lithographs were made in 1931. For the following two decades, she devoted herself to painting, mainly landscapes and portraits.
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subtly graded contrasting colors that overlap to create a luminous surface.
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Cunz is known to have influenced the work of contemporaries like
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