Louis Lozowick (1892-1973)
Loading Girders 1930
lithograph, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2, signed; 8/10 1972
UAM 1992.126

"The dominant trend in America of today, beneath all the apparent chaos and confusion, is toward order and organization which find their outward sign and symbol in the rigid geometry of the American city: in the verticals of its smoke stacks, in the parallels of its car tracks, in the squares of its streets, the cubes of its factories, the arc of its bridges, the cylinders of its gas tanks," declared Lozowick in 1927.