Louis Lozowick

Louis Lozowick

Louis Lozowick was born in Ludvinovka, Ukraine in 1892 and died in New Jersey in 1973. He attended Kiev Art School from 1904-1906, then emigrated to USA. He is recognized as an Art Deco and Precisionist artist, and mainly produced streamline, urban-inspired monochromatic lithographs in a career that spanned 50 years. He published a monograph on Russian Constructivism entitled "Modern Russian Art".

Further reading

*Associated American Artists. (1992). "Louis Lozowick : a centennial exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints: December 2-31, 1992." New York: author.
*Flint, J.A. (1982). "The prints of Louis Lozowick : a catalogue raisonné." New York: Hudson Hills Press.
*Harnsberger, R.S. (1992). Ten precisionist artists : annotated bibliographies [Art Reference Collection no. 14] . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
*Marquardt, V.H. (Ed.) (1997). "Survivor from a dead age : the memoirs of Louis Lozowick." Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

External links

* [http://www.tigtail.org/TIG/L_View/TVM/B/NAmerican/a.%20pre%20WW%20II/lozowick/lozowick.html Example] of Lozowick's work
* [http://artandsocialissues.cmaohio.org/web-content/pages/race_lozowick.html Columbus Museum of Art] Web page on Lozowick's 1936 lithograph "Lynching" (click on picture for larger image)
* [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/lozoloui.htm Louis Lozowick Papers At the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art]


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