Louis Lozowick

Best known for his lithographs of skyscrapers, constructions, and machinery, Louis Lozowick emigrated to the States in 1907 after graduating from the Kiev Art School in the Ukraine. Here, he continued his studies at the National Academy of Design in New York and became absolutely awed by the rise of that American metropolis. To his thinking, “...the dominant trend in America of today, beneath all the apparent chaos and confusion, is toward order and organization which find their outward sign in the rigid geometry of the American city:... in the squares of its streets, the cubes of its factories, the arc of its bridges, the cylinders of its gas tanks...”

Lozowick was devoted to a career-long study of industrial and urban America — its construction, its evolving skyline, and the lives of the people living in its midst.

As a muralist for the Public Works Art Project, he also toured the country extensively, avidly sketching scenes of American life which, later, found their way into his lithographs.

Although he was also a painter, his true love was lithography and he continuously worked and re-worked his heavy litho stones to achieve the powerful, velvety dark areas that he used to contrast his open planes of pure white.

We are most appreciative of the Hamilton Circle’s support that enabled us to add his fabulous Above The City to the Museum’s growing collection.