id: 159824
accession number: 1997.141
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.141
updated: 2023-03-15 15:46:28.148000
New York, 1923. Louis Lozowick (American, 1892–1973). Lithograph; sheet: 40.3 x 29 cm (15 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); platemark: 29 x 22.9 cm (11 7/16 x 9 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1997.141 © Courtesy of the Estate of Louis Lozowick and Mary Ryan Gallery, NY
title: New York
title in original language:
series:
series in original language:
creation date: 1923
creation date earliest: 1923
creation date latest: 1923
current location:
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
copyright: © Courtesy of the Estate of Louis Lozowick and Mary Ryan Gallery, NY
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: lithograph
department: Prints
collection: PR - Lithograph
type: Print
find spot:
catalogue raisonne: Flint 6
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CREATORS
* Louis Lozowick (American, 1892–1973) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 40.3 x 29 cm (15 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); Platemark: 29 x 22.9 cm (11 7/16 x 9 in.)
state of the work:
edition of the work: as few as 15 impressions
support materials:
description: Rives BFK mold-made wove paper
watermarks:
inscriptions:
inscription: signed and dated lower right below image in graphite "LOUIS LOZOWICK '23"; bottom margin in graphite "New York" and "#15"
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remark:
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints
opening date: 2000-09-17T00:00:00
From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17 - November 26, 2000. "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints."
MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 65, p. 119, repr. p. 61.
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PROVENANCE
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fun fact:
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Lozowick traveled to France, Germany, and Russia in 1919, where he was influenced by Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism. The result, to quote the artist, was "a new aesthetic approach to the civilization of today---a new plastic interpretation of the machine age." Born in the Ukraine, Lozowick came to the United States as a child and remained fascinated with views of urban America. His ordered, geometric designs reflect the beauty and vitality he found in cities, factories, and machines, stripped of extraneous detail. It was the optimism of the 1920s, the confidence in the progress of a rational society enhanced by the triumphs of science and engineering, that led to the glorification of industrialization. Lozowick wrote in 1927, "...the artist could...harness the forces of nature by using math and geometry in a very precise manner. In this manner the flowing rhythm of modern America may be gripped and stayed and its synthesis eloquently rendered in the native idiom."
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 60-61, no. 65
url:
Donley, Gregory M., "Geometric Means", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 05, May/June 2006
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-05/page/4/
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IMAGES