{"data":{"id":"10676","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":10676,"topgoose_id":10588,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":10676,"title":"Corner of Steel Plant","display_artist_text":"Louis Lozowick","display_date":"1929","accession_number":"96.68.202","dimensions":"Sheet: 13 5/16 × 9 3/8 in. (33.8 × 23.8 cm)\r\nImage: 11 7/16 × 7 13/16 in. (29.1 × 19.8 cm)","medium":"Lithograph","department":"collection","classification":"Prints","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"Ed. 25","publication_info":"Printed by George C. Miller","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouis Lozowick, \u003cem\u003eCorner of Steel Plant\u003c/em\u003e, 1929. Lithograph, sheet: 13 5/16 × 9 3/8 in. (33.8 × 23.8 cm)\r\nImage: 11 7/16 × 7 13/16 in. (29.1 × 19.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund 96.68.202. © Estate of Louis Lozowick, Courtesy Mary Ryan Gallery, New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eLouis Lozowick’s lithograph \u003ci\u003eCorner of Steel Plant \u003c/i\u003eis a tribute to industrial efficiency. For the artist, there was beauty in what might be considered an unromantic subject: the cylinder of a tank set above a corner of the rectilinear grid of a factory, the whole composition unified by a counterpoint of tubular pipes and duct work. Lozowick’s inspiration to represent the urban American environment came to him while living abroad in the early 1920s. Impressed by the order, precision, and rationality of European avant-garde art movements such as Constructivism, the Bauhaus, and de Stijl, he assimilated some of their ideas, developing his own machine age aesthetic upon returning to the States. The mechanical quality of his preferred technique, lithography, dovetailed perfectly with his industrial subject matter and technological optimism, and he praised “the range of tone which it makes accessible to the artist—from the softest, most delicate grays to the deepest, richest blacks, which are given a specific, textural quality by the surface of the stone.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Large industrial steel plant structure with curved pipes, platforms, and a tall laddered tower.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:35:59.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:31.813-05:00","images":[{"id":101503,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/10676/96_68_202_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"802","type":"artist"}]}}}}