Granite Quarries
1936
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 30.2 x 35.3 cm (11 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.) sheet: 40.4 x 49.5 cm (15 7/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Adele and Lee Lozowick, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.204.5
Art Historical Context
Louis Lozowick’s 1936 lithograph *Granite Quarries* captures the monumental scale of American industry during the Great Depression. Working in black ink on wove paper, the artist renders the angular geometry of excavated stone and heavy machinery with crisp precision. The medium’s capacity for rich tonal gradations allows subtle contrasts between sunlit rock faces and deep shadows, inviting viewers to appreciate both the labor and the landscape it reshapes. Lozowick, a leading figure in the Precisionist movement, frequently celebrated the ordered beauty of factories, bridges, and quarries. Cr...
About the Artist
Louis Lozowick
Louis Lozowick was born in 1892 in Liudvynivka, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), into a Jewish family. He received his earliest artistic training at the Kiev Art School before emigrating to the United States, where he continued his studies at the National Academy of Design in New York from 1912 to 1915 and subsequently earned a degree from Ohio State University in 1918....