Drawbridge

Media - 1972.123 - SAAM-1972.123_1 - 52287
Copied Louis Lozowick, Drawbridge, 1939, pencil and charcoal pencil on illustration board, image: 16 x 8 1⁄2 in. (40.6 x 21.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1972.123, © 1939, Lee Lozowick

Artwork Details

Title
Drawbridge
Artist
Date
1939
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 16 x 8 1⁄2 in. (40.6 x 21.6 cm)
Copyright
© 1939, Lee Lozowick
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Mediums
Mediums Description
pencil and charcoal pencil on illustration board
Classifications
Keywords
  • Architecture — bridge
Object Number
1972.123
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1972.123

Artwork Description

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