High Bridge (Primary Title)
Louis Lozowick, American, born Russia, 1892 - 1973 (Artist)
In this print, Louis Lozowick uses one element of the urban infrastructure (the arc of a bridge and its reflection below) as a frame or filter through which to see several others (buildings, cranes, smokestacks, factories, a wharf). The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, the High Bridge carries the Croton Viaduct over the Harlem River and connects northern Manhattan and the Bronx. Like other Precisionist artists, Lozowick stilled the river’s reflections to create an abstract pattern in which the upper register of geometric forms and smooth surfaces dissolve.
Signed in graphite at lower right corner: "Louis Lozowick '29"
Inscribed by the artist at lower left corner: "VI/X"
Gift of Dorothy and Jerry Canter
©artist or artist’s estate
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