MARGARET LOWENGRUND (1902 1957) Washington Square Arch

Sale 2696 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 1,000

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

MARGARET LOWENGRUND (1902 - 1957)
Washington Square Arch.

Sepia crayon on cream wove paper, circa 1952. 352x270 mm; 13⅞x10⅝ inches.

Provenance
Estate of the artist, Woodstock, with the ink stamp verso.

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Lowengrund had used the same subject in her 1951 color lithograph 2 Fifth Avenue, which depicts Washington Square Arch in front of the titular residential building nearing completion in Greenwich Village.

In 1951, Margaret Lowengrund opened The Contemporaries, an unprecedented gallery and print studio hybrid servicing artists of all media, students, and collectors. By promoting prints alongside paintings and sculpture, Lowengrund aimed to call attention to their importance by contextualizing them and discarding the prescribed hierarchy of media. The Contemporaries studio specialized in lithography and etching and offered instruction and edition printing for artists. It notably pre-dated the flurry of printmaking activity and was at the vanguard of burgeoning independent print workshops in the United States during the following decade.

Lowengrund has recently been the subject of a groundbreaking exhibition "A Model Workshop" at the Print Center New York, September 21 - December 23, 2023, curated by Christina Weyl and Lauren Rosenblum. Weyl and Rosenblum's research has brought to light Lowengrund's life and achievements, as well as her far-reaching legacy.