New York (Brooklyn Bridge)

Louis Lozowick, artist

1892–1973

New York (Brooklyn Bridge), 1923

Where object was made: New York, New York, United States

Material/technique: wove paper; lithograph

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 288 x 228 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 11 5/16 x 9 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in

Credit line: Bequest of George and Annette Cross Murphy

Accession number: 1989.0173

Not on display

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"Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard
By the time he was 26, Lozowick had studied art at the Kiev Art School in Russia, at the National Academy of Design in New York, and at Ohio State University. He then studied in both Paris and Berlin. By 1926, when he joined the editorial board of the left-wing journal New Masses, he was well versed in current artistic developments in Europe, such as Constructivism and de stijl. These hard-edged, linear styles, evident in New York (Brooklyn Bridge), suggest the possibility of an efficient reframing of the world, as did the political theories espoused in New Masses. A version of this lithograph was planned as a cover for New Masses but was never used for that purpose.