Lithographs by Russian-American painter and printmaker Louis Lozowick (1892–1973)—a few more here instagram.com/p/CBp1_Q6j2r6/
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He was born in Ludvinovka, a small village close to Kiev, where he studied art for two years. There, one of his most influential teachers was Ilya Repin—a leader of the Russian art group the Wanderers, commited to portraiying people in real-life situations
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Ilya Repin's portrait of his friend, Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author of short stories (1884)
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In 1906, he emigrated to the United States, where he resumed his art studies. In 1920, he took a long trip to Europe, travelling to Paris and Berlin, where he got acquainted with El Lissitzky, learned the art of lithography and started to write for 'Broom' about art & literature
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He was one of those few artists, who also excelled as critic. He wrote for several journals, such as the American Jewish intellectual and literary journal 'Menorah Journal', the Marxist magazine 'The New Masses', of which he was also art editor, and other left-wing periodicals
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'Self-portrait' (1930) + 'Cactus' (1932) by Louis Lozowick
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'Guts of Manhattan' (1939) by Louis Lozowick
[such a genius...]
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'Strike Scene' (1934) by Louis Lozowick
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'Night Repairs' (1939) by Louis Lozowick
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'Cleveland' (1923) by Louis Lozowick
This is one of his most iconic lithographs, in which the passion for Russian constructivism and the classic utopian impulse to combine modernity, progress and humanism are strongly perceived
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'Barge Canal—Harlem' (1940) by Louis Lozowick
And here many more americanart.si.edu/artist/louis-l
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