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Safed, Israel
1962 · Lithograph
Sheet: 18 × 13 1/16 in. (45.7 × 33.2 cm)
Plate: 14 5/16 × 8 3/16 in. (36.4 × 20.8 cm)
Image: 13 9/16 × 8 in. (34.4 × 20.3 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Louis Lozowick
Ukrainian-American, 1892
Ludvinovka, Ukraine
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52
Works in Collection
77
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4
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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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Points of View
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975
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American Prints: 1913�1963
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974–1975
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Manhattan Observed
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Louis Lozowick was an American printmaker and painter whose precisionist lithographs and woodcuts depicted industrial landscapes and urban architecture with geometric clarity and formal severity. Active from the 1920s onward, he translated the machine age into stark linear compositions that emphasized structure over narrative, often focusing on factories, bridges, and metropolitan skylines rendered in black and white. His graphic work bridged European modernism and American industrial subject matter, establishing him as a key figure in the development of American printmaking during the interwar period.
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New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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