Lozowick’s fascination with bridges echoes the technological optimism that swept across America after World War I. He also believed that such subjects offered the opportunity to combine abstraction and representation in his art. Lozowick said, “There is no theoretical reason why the technical gains of abstraction cannot be used in the representation of an actual scene… If the graphic artist can avoid the danger of ornamental abstraction on the one hand and photographic realism on the other, if he can apply the force of new technical equipment to the wealth of new themes, no prospect for what he might accomplish would be too hopeful.”
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2009
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2009
- Title
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Drawbridge
- Artist
- Date
- 1939
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 16 x 8 1⁄2 in. (40.6 x 21.6 cm)
- Copyright
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© 1939, Lee Lozowick
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum purchase
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- pencil and charcoal pencil on illustration board
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Architecture – bridge
- Object Number
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1972.123
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
