Still Life # 1 (Still Life with Guitar)

1929

Louis Lozowick

Associated Names
Louis Lozowick

Artist, American, born Ukraine, 1892 - 1973

A guitar lies horizontally across a flat surface. Several circular objects and vertical cylindrical forms are positioned near its neck. The color palette consists of shades of grayscale, with the guitar and objects appearing in bright white, and the surroundings in deep blacks and grays. The guitar's body is laid across the lower half of the image from left to right, with the neck extending towards the right side. The circular objects and cylindrical forms are scattered near the neck of the guitar and create elongated shadows that extend diagonally towards the lower right corner.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.9 x 30.2 cm (9 x 11 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 36.2 x 51.2 cm (14 1/4 x 20 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2005.99.24

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Flint 1982, no. 35

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hom Gallery, Washington, D.C.); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased 1973; gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1980

  • Flint, Janet. Jacob Kainen: Prints, A Retrospective, Supplement to "Checklist of Prints". Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980.

1982

  • Flint, Janet A. The Prints of Louis Lozowick: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1982, no. 35.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Louis Lozowick '29; lower left in graphite: STILL LIFE #1 (WITH GUITAR)

Markings

RCK (stamp)

Wikidata ID

Q76347668

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