Night Repairs
Night Repairs
Artist
Louis Lozowick
(1892 - 1973)
Publisher
Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project-New York City
(1939 - 1943)
Date1939
MediumColor lithograph
DimensionsImage: 11 13/16 × 8 13/16 in. (30 × 22.4 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 11 1/2 in. (40.6 × 29.2 cm)
Framed: 19 1/4 in. × 16 in. × 1 1/8 in.
Sheet: 16 × 11 1/2 in. (40.6 × 29.2 cm)
Framed: 19 1/4 in. × 16 in. × 1 1/8 in.
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2012.282
Signedl.r.: Louis Lozowick '39
Accession number
2012.282
On View
On viewLabel TextIn the 1930s, artists found kinship with workers because they felt themselves to be working under conditions similar to those of their subjects. In Night Repairs, Louis Lozowick captures the visual drama of welders working at night on trolley tracks.
In 1936, the American Artists Congress—a group that included Ida Abelman, Rockwell Kent, and Lozowick—proclaimed that the American artist is not "an ornament of the pink-tea, a playboy companion of the dilettante patron, a remote hero with a famous name. He becomes, instead, a workman among workers. He paints murals on a scaffold of planks and ladders. He prints his etchings, lithographs, or woodblocks with hands which know ink and the rollers and wheels of his press. He works. He produces. He lives."
Markingsl.l.: Federal Art Project / NYC WPA [stamp]
