Roofs and Sky
1939
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screenprint
Dimensions
Image: 254 x 330 mm Sheet: 339 x 428 mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.3251
Art Historical Context
Louis Lozowick’s 1939 screenprint *Roofs and Sky* captures the geometric poetry of the modern American city from an elevated vantage point. Rendered in crisp lines and flattened planes, the composition transforms ordinary rooftops, chimneys, and water towers into a rhythmic pattern beneath an expansive sky. Lozowick, a Russian-born artist who settled in New York, was a leading figure in Precisionism, a movement that celebrated the clean forms of industry and architecture while drawing inspiration from Cubism and Constructivism. Created as a screenprint—an accessible medium that allowed bold c...
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....