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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
LOUIS LOZOWICK New Hudson Bridge.
Lithograph, 1936. 337x226 mm; 13 3/8x9 inches, full margins. Edition of only several. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
In 1936, Lozowick received a commission from the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) for 2 large oil paintings for the post office at 33rd Street in Manhattan. He produced lithographs based on the 2 paintings: Mural Study: Lower Manhattan and Mural Study: Triborough Bridge during the same year (Flint 135 and 136 respectively). The present work may relate to this commission.
Another lithograph of the same subject, Spanning the Hudson (New Hudson Bridge) (Flint 140), which however shows the partially completed span in its entirety, also dates from 1936. Known as the Henry Hudson Bridge, the span crosses the Spuyten Duyvil Creek at the northern tip of Manhattan and connects the Henry Hudson Parkway with the Westchester County Parkway.
According to Flint, "several trunkfuls of Lozowick's papers, correspondence and sketchbooks were severly damaged by flooding" and some prints (now unknown) were among the items destroyed (page 49). This fact, combined with the extremely small edition of the current work, would suggest why it was not recorded in the Flint catalogue raisonné. Another impression sold at Sotheby's, New York, November 7, 1995, lot 374.
