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Louis Lozowick'Tanks #1' — American Precisionism1929
1929
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Louis Lozowick, 'Tanks #1', lithograph, 1929, edition 50, Flint 39. Signed, titled, and numbered '11/50' in pencil. Signed with the artist's monogram in the stone, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (3/4 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards.
Image size 13 15/16 x 8 1/16 inches (355 x 204 mm), sheet size 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches (400 x 286 mm).
Exhibited: 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock', Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008.
Literature: 'Prints and Their Creators, A World History', Carl Zigrosser, Crown Publishers Inc, 1974; 'American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers', Clinton Adams, The University of New Mexico Press, 1983; 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock', Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008.
Impressions of this work are in the following museum collections: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, The British Museum, Brooklyn Museum, New York Public Library, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“A beautifully articulated synthesis of strong personal visions and an extraordinary command of black-and-white lithography remained constant. His prints have withstood the inevitable fluctuations of fashion and taste, and today are deservedly appreciated by both connoisseurs and a new generation as among the finest created in twentieth-century America.”
—Janet Flint, The Prints of Louis Lozowick: A Catalogue Raisonné, Hudson Hills Press, NY, 1982.
Born in Russia in 1892, Lozowick came to this country at the age of 14 to join his brother in New York City. By 1919, he had attended art school, finished college, served in the army, and traveled throughout the United States, visiting major cities that would later become subjects of his work. From 1919 to 1924, Lozowick lived and traveled throughout Europe, staying in Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. While in Berlin, he became friends with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitsky, and the avant-garde Russian artists affiliated with the Novembergruppe. On his return to New York in 1924, he joined the executive board of the New Masses and exhibited his machine age drawings, the ‘Machine Ornament’ series in the 1926 exhibition of Katherine Dreier’s Société Anonyme; three years later, he made his first prints.
Having assimilated European Constructivist and Cubist theories and the Bauhaus manifesto promoting the integration of applied and fine art, Lozowick was inspired to present the rapidly growing New York City skyline with its monumental skyscrapers as modern symbols of optimism. Like many other Depression-era artists, he identified closely with the common worker and valued the consummate craft and workmanship dictated by the printmaking process. His versatility and range of interests were exemplified by his stage sets for the 1926 production of Georg Kaiser’s play “Gas,” the first Constructivist production seen in America. A year later, his images and essay were centerpieces in the pivotal 1927 Machine Age Exposition in New York. Lozowick’s first solo exhibition of lithographs depicting primarily soaring urban cityscapes and industrial scenes was mounted by the renowned Weyhe Gallery in 1929.
Assigned to the WPA New York Graphic Arts Division in 1935, he left in 1936 to accept a commission from the prestigious Treasury Relief Art Project for two large oil paintings for the Post Office at 33rd Street in Manhattan. His preliminary lithographic studies for the paintings are among his most compelling images of New York skyscraper and bridge forms.
Returning to the Project in 1938, Lozowick experimented with various printmaking mediums, including wood engraving, drypoint, and screen printing, until the end of his appointment in 1940. During the next three decades, encouraged by Carl Zigrosser of the Weyhe Gallery, he devoted himself primarily to lithography, mounting several solo exhibitions at major New York galleries and a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1972. Posthumous solo and group exhibitions of Lozowick’s work include the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2001), de Young Museum (2007), British Museum (2008), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (2015), Whitney Museum of American Art (2015), Brooklyn Museum of Art (2015), and the Palmer Museum of Art (2019).
Louis Lozowick’s graphic works are held in numerous prominent museum collections, including the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Cornell University Library, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
- Creator:Louis Lozowick (1892 - 1973, American)
- Creation Year:1929
- Dimensions:Height: 13.94 in (35.41 cm)Width: 8.07 in (20.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Myrtle Beach, SC
- Reference Number:Seller: 1042511stDibs: LU532313080242
Louis Lozowick
Louis Lozowick is widely recognized as a key figure in America's Precisionist movement and a leader in mid-20th-century modernist printmaking. His graphic works and paintings have been acquired by numerous museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, U. S. Library of Congress and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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