Positano, Italy

1964

Louis Lozowick

Associated Names
Louis Lozowick

Artist, American, born Ukraine, 1892 - 1973

A black-and-white landscape lithograph depicts buildings stacked on one another as they curve across the picture. The buildings on our left face left, then gradually rotate right to face us until about the center or the frame. Here they begin facing towards the right and gradually become more rightward-facing until the edge of the print. The buildings are composed of a combination of squares, rectangles, and arches, with different shading techniques to suggest windows and doors at a three-dimensional scale. The shapes are a simple block and arch form and are separated by different shades of gray. All of the buildings are about the same size and share a similar color scheme to other buildings across the picture. On the leftmost point of the picture, the image starts around the middle of the paper and the building at the starting point is angled upwards towards the center. The buildings continue across the picture and become stacked upon each other more and more until around the center of the print where it hits its highest point. The buildings then begin to slope downward toward the bottom-right corner of the landscape. The buildings become steadily fewer, and eventually the picture ends with the rightmost single building being the bottom corner of the artwork. The picture's background is completely blank. There is small text in each of the bottom corners of the picture, which is the only writing on the artwork. The bottom left has a faint number, and the bottom right reads “Louis Lozowick ‘64”.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 32.7 x 47.7 cm (12 7/8 x 18 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.98.142

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Flint 1982, no. 266


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1982

  • Flint, Janet A. The Prints of Louis Lozowick: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1982, no. 266.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 14/20; lower right in graphite: Louis Lozowick '64; lower left in image: printed artist's monogram

Wikidata ID

Q76347615

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