Yellow Moon
1967
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in blue and yellow on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 15.7 x 36.2 cm (6 3/16 x 14 1/4 in.) sheet: 28.7 x 46.5 cm (11 5/16 x 18 5/16 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
1991.204.7
Art Historical Context
Discover the luminous *Yellow Moon*, a 1967 lithograph by Lozowick, a American artist known for his Precisionist style. This intimate print, rendered in striking blue and yellow inks on smooth wove paper, measures just 15.7 x 36.2 cm for the image, inviting close contemplation. Lozowick (1892–1973), born in Ukraine and later based in New York, championed Precisionism—an early 20th-century celebrating industrial America's geometry and dynamism through crisp lines and bold forms. Though created late in his career, *Yellow Moon* reflects his enduring mastery of lithography, a planographic techniq...
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....