The Quick and the Dead
1946
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 22.5 x 32.4 cm (8 7/8 x 12 3/4 in.) sheet: 30.5 x 42.9 cm (12 x 16 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Lee Lozowick in memory of his father
Accession Number
1995.86.3
Art Historical Context
Louis Lozowick’s 1946 lithograph *The Quick and the Dead* exemplifies the expressive power of printmaking in the years following World War II. Created in black ink on wove paper, the medium allowed Lozowick to achieve rich tonal contrasts and fine detail while producing multiple impressions—an approach that made art more accessible to a broad public. The sheet’s modest size further underscores the democratic spirit of lithography, inviting intimate viewing rather than monumental display. The title, drawn from a biblical phrase contrasting the living with the dead, resonates with the historica...
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....