One of the first women to study at the Hungarian Royal National School of Arts and Crafts in Budapest, Karasz immigrated to New York City in 1913. During a career that spanned nearly 70 years, she created countless designs for carpets, ceramics, china, furniture, interior lighting, metalwork, murals, textiles, wallpapers, and more than 100 cover illustrations for the New Yorker.

She created On the Lawn for the American Artists Group, an organization founded during the Great Depression that produced affordable editions of fine art prints. The subject relates to Karasz’s interest in child psychology. During the 1930s, she published articles that emphasized the importance of nursery and bedroom design to a child’s development. According to Karasz, the simplified geometric forms of modernist abstraction could play a crucial role in childhood education, teaching principles of measurement and proportion as well as aesthetic taste.

—Text taken from the Carter Handbook (2023)