Steel Valley (Pittsburgh)

Object number2022.33.2

Artist Louis Lozowick (Russian, 1892 - 1973)

Date1942

MediumPaper; Ink

Credit LineGift of Susan R. Frampton

DescriptionBlack-and-white lithograph on rectangular off-white paper. Image depicts an industrial landscape. Left foreground has utility pole with two workers. Midground has trains on railroad tracks, trucks on a road, and utility poles all in front of a large steelworks that extends into the left background. Background has a river in front of low hills. Sky is gray with either hazy clouds or smoke from the industrial complex. Reverse is undecorated.DimensionsHeight x Width: 12.563 x 15.875 in. (31.9 x 40.3 cm)
SignedArtist mark in bottom left corner of printed area "LL" with second "L" inverted.
Artist signature handwritten in pencil below the printed area in the bottom right corner "Louis Lozowick".
InscriptionsBottom margin has handwritten text in pencil in bottom left corner "J7 / [illegible]", at center "OK for printing lighter", and in bottom right corner " "Steel Valley" 1942".
Historical NotesLithograph entitled Steel Valley (Pittsburgh,) 1936/42, by Louis Lozowick. Louis Lozowick was a well-known Russian-American painter/printmaker working in the early part of the 20th century. He was invited to make a series of work celebrating industry and progress and made a whole series of prints set in Pittsburgh and its surrounding mills.

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