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Louis Lozowick

Louis Lozowick

Ukrainian-American, 1892

WA-00028245

Ludvinovka, Ukraine

Printmaking

Representation

None documented

10

Institutional Exhibitions

52

Works in Collection

77

Assets Indexed

4

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Publications Referenced

80%

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ6687709 ULAN500028616

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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Art of the Twenties

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979–1980

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Points of View

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1975

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American Prints: 1913�1963

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974–1975

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Manhattan Observed

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1968

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American Prints of the 20th Century

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1954

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Master Prints from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1949

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Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1943

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Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1941

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Three Centuries of American Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1938

Field Verification (4 fields)

4 cross-verified · 0 single-source

BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
LocationMoMA· 93%✓
NationalityMoMA· 93%✓

Source Registry (3)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/louis-lozowick
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/3617
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/louis-lozowick
Tier 1 · Institutional85%

About

Why this artist matters now

Louis Lozowick was an American printmaker and painter whose precisionist lithographs and woodcuts depicted industrial landscapes and urban architecture with geometric clarity and formal severity. Active from the 1920s onward, he translated the machine age into stark linear compositions that emphasized structure over narrative, often focusing on factories, bridges, and metropolitan skylines rendered in black and white. His graphic work bridged European modernism and American industrial subject matter, establishing him as a key figure in the development of American printmaking during the interwar period.

Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

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Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

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Artworks (52)

1962 · Lithograph

Sheet: 18 × 13 1/16 in. (45.7 × 33.2 cm) Plate: 14 5/16 × 8 3/16 in. (36.4 × 20.8 cm) Image: 13 9/16 × 8 in. (34.4 × 20.3 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Walk Among Sunflowers

1957 · Lithograph

Image: 8 in. × 13 1/2 in. (20.3 × 34.3 cm) Sheet: 11 in. × 16 1/4 in. (27.9 × 41.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1952 · lithograph on wove paper

Image: 40.6 x 30.3 cm (16 x 11 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

1951 · Lithograph

Image: 9 1/4 × 13 1/4 in. (23.5 × 33.7 cm) Sheet: 12 × 16 in. (30.5 × 40.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nuns on Wall Street

Nuns on Wall Street

1941 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 32.2 × 21.6 cm (12 11/16 × 8 9/16 in.); Sheet: 40.9 × 27.6 cm (16 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hudson Valley

1940 · Color woodcut on cream wove paper

Image: 20.4 × 15.2 cm (8 1/16 × 6 in.); Sheet: 30.9 × 23.2 cm (12 3/16 × 9 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mountain and Stream

Mountain and Stream

1940 · Color woodcut on off-white wove paper

Image: 15.5 × 20.5 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 24 × 32 cm (9 1/2 × 12 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Barge Canal-Harlem

Barge Canal-Harlem

1940 · Color woodcut on cream Japanese paper

Image: 23 × 14 cm (9 1/16 × 5 9/16 in.); Sheet: 29.5 × 21 cm (11 5/8 × 8 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dusk

1940 · Color woodcut on ivory wove paper

Image: 15 × 21 cm (5 15/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 22 × 29 cm (8 11/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1940 · lithograph

Platemark: 25.5 x 33.9 cm (10 1/16 x 13 3/8 in.); Sheet: 28.4 x 37.7 cm (11 3/16 x 14 13/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Relic

1939 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 38 × 24.9 cm (15 × 9 13/16 in.); Sheet: 40.9 × 28.9 cm (16 1/8 × 11 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1939 · Lithograph

Image: 15 in. × 9 3/4 in. (38.1 × 24.8 cm) Sheet: 16 in. × 11 1/2 in. (40.6 × 29.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Repairing Brooklyn Bridge

1938 · Lithograph

Image: 12 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (31.8 × 19.1 cm) Sheet: 16 in. × 11 3/4 in. (40.6 × 29.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

November, from the Calendar of the American League Against War and Fascism

November, from the Calendar of the American League Against War and Fascism

1936 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)

Image: 21 × 14.5 cm (8 5/16 × 5 3/4 in.); Sheet: 41.8 × 24.1 cm (16 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lynching (Lynch Law)

1936 · lithograph

Sheet: 39.8 x 29 cm (15 11/16 x 11 7/16 in.); Image: 26.2 x 18.6 cm (10 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Storm Clouds Above Manhattan

Storm Clouds Above Manhattan

1935 · Lithograph

composition: 11 3/4 x 16 3/4" (29.8 x 42.5 cm); sheet: 15 7/8 x 22 1/2" (40.3 x 57.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Granaries to Babylon

Granaries to Babylon

1933 · Lithograph on ivory wove paper

Image: 32.4 × 20.7 cm (12 13/16 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 37.5 × 27 cm (14 13/16 × 10 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mid-Air

1932 · Lithograph on cream laid paper

Image: 29 × 16.5 cm (11 7/16 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 40 × 29 cm (15 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Coming for Cotton

Coming for Cotton

1932 · Lithograph

composition: 6 13/16 x 10 1/4" (17.3 x 26 cm); sheet: 9 1/16 x 14 5/8" (23 x 37.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Tajikistan, Steam Shovel in Desert

Tajikistan, Steam Shovel in Desert

1932 · Lithograph

composition: 7 7/8 x 11 5/8" (20 x 29.5 cm); sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 11/16" (26.4 x 37.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Subway Construction

Subway Construction

1931 · Lithograph

composition: 6 5/8 × 13 1/16" (16.8 × 33.1 cm); sheet: 11 9/16 × 16" (29.4 × 40.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Kurgan Tubé

1931 · Lithograph

Sheet 11 3/8 x 8 9/16" (28.4 x 21.7 cm) Comp. 8 1/4 x 6 1/4" (21.0 x 16.0 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1931 · Lithograph

Image: 8 1/4 in. × 13 in. (21 × 33 cm) Sheet: 11 1/2 in. × 16 in. (29.2 × 40.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subway Construction

1931 · lithograph on Rives BFK wove paper

Image: 33 x 16.9 cm (13 x 6 5/8 in.); Sheet: 40.5 x 29.1 cm (15 15/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (5)

52 published of 74 catalogued · 57 with image

MoMA
22 publishedof 44 catalogued42 img
Art Institute Chicago
15 published15 img
The Met
7 published
Cleveland Museum of Art
6 published
Whitney
2 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 6)

6 entries · 1 sources

Hell Gate Bridge
1928 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Lynching (Lynch Law)
1936 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Subway Construction
1931 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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New York
1923 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Winter Fun
1940 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Tel & Tel
1952 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Images

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Still Life #2 (Checkerboard '29) (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Still Life #2 (Checkerboard '29) (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

6

Collections6

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

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