Night Repairs
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 11 3/4 × 8 3/4 in. (29.8 × 22.2 cm) Sheet: 14 1/4 × 10 3/4 in. (36.2 × 27.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Work Projects Administration, New York, 1943
Accession Number
43.33.1181
Tags
Art Historical Context
Louis Lozowick’s 1939 lithograph *Night Repairs* captures the quiet dignity of American laborers during the Great Depression. Created under the auspices of the Work Projects Administration (WPA), the print depicts men working by lamplight to maintain vital infrastructure, reflecting the era’s emphasis on public works and employment programs. Lozowick, a Ukrainian-born artist closely associated with Precisionism, brought his characteristic clarity of form and geometric order to the nocturnal scene, transforming an ordinary repair job into a study of light, shadow, and human endeavor. The litho...
About the Artist
Louis Lozowick|WPA
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....