Karp was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1903. He attended the
Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He was also associated with the
Atelier 17 printmaking studio. Karp died on August 3, 1951, in New York at the age of 47. Karp's work is included in the collections of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Museum of Modern Art, the
National Gallery of Art, and the
Smithsonian American Art Museum. ==References==