About the Object
In this city scene, the buildings are shown as fractured cubes and appear to fan out from the center of the composition, where a red circle—perhaps the sun—is shown four times layered between the buildings. Two conical shapes suggest skyscrapers.
Additional Information
The city is a frequent subject in the Collection – particularly in the 1920s. George Ault captured the city at night in New York Night, No. 2, 1921 (2015.02.01), Jan Matulka explored it using charcoal in Cityscape, 1923 (VF2015.05.08), and John Storrs’ mixed metal sculpture Study in Pure Form (Forms in Space No. 4), c. 1924, (2010.04.06), includes references to skyscrapers in a similarly conical shape.
The Artist;
[Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY];
Herbert and Anne Goldstone, 1961-1991;
Anne S. Goldstone Trust, 1991-1996;
[ACA Galleries, New York, NY;
Maurice and Margery Katz, Los Angeles, CA, 1996-2014;
[Jonathan Boos, New York, NY];
New York, NY. Zabriskie Gallery. Louis Lozowick: Paintings and Drawings, 1923-29. January 3-21, 1961, cat. no. 1.
New York, NY. Hollis Taggart Galleries. Concerning Expressionism: American Modernism and the German Avant-Garde. May 20-July 31, 1998, pp. 86, 87, 108, ill.p. 87, pl. 51, cat. no. 56.
Oxford, England. Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Oxford. America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper, March 23-July 22, 2018.
Corpus Christi, TX. The Art Museum of South Texas. Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection of American Art. September 13, 2018-January 6, 2019.
Tulsa, OK. Philbrook Museum of Art. Making Modern America. February 10-May 26, 2019.
Kramer, Hilton. “Art Outsmarts Theories in Expressionist Exhibition,” New York Observer, June 22, 1998.
Jonathan Boos, 2015, January 2015, pp. 14-15, ill. p. 15 and on front cover.
