Relic of Old Rome
1958
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lithograph
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1959.10.34
Art Historical Context
Louis Lozowick’s 1958 lithograph *Relic of Old Rome* exemplifies the artist’s lifelong mastery of the medium. Known for his precise, geometric renderings within the Precisionist movement, Lozowick used lithography’s capacity for crisp lines and subtle tonal gradations to distill architectural forms into elegant, almost abstract compositions. Created late in his career, the print reflects his continued fascination with the intersection of past and present. The title evokes the enduring presence of classical antiquity, suggesting a fragment of Roman architecture reimagined through a modern lens...
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....