New York, 59th Street Bridge

Born in Ludvinovka, Ukraine, Louis Lozowick immigrated to the United States at the age of fourteen. In New York he studied at the National Academy of Design. During 1919-1924 he traveled extensively in Europe, during which time he began a series of images based on remembrances of his daily commute into New York City on an elevated train. Towering above the streets, it would round a turn where the urban vista swept before his eyes. With sweeping arcs and directional lines, Lozowick created a futurist vision celebrating this memory and the triumph of American architecture while capturing the rhythm and clipped tempo of the sleepless city. The vivid color and futurist technique of New York, 59th Street Bridge met with an enthusiastic response when first exhibited in Berlin in 1923. It stirred keen interest in the artistic community, particularly among the Russian Constructivists and German Expressionists with whom Lozowick associated.