Lighthouse Service Station

Details

EDMUND LEWANDOWSKI (1914-1998)
Lewandowski, E.
Lighthouse Service Station
signed 'E.D. Lewandowski' (lower right)—signed again (on the reverse)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paperboard
15 ½ x 21 7/8 in. (39.4 x 55.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1937.

Provenance

The Downtown Gallery, New York.
Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, acquired from the above, 1938.
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 2005.

Exhibited

Rock Hill, South Carolina, Winthrop University Galleries; Mobile, Alabama, Mobile Museum of Art; Flint, Michigan, Flint Institute of Arts; Athens, Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art, Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond, September 6, 2010-December 4, 2011, pp. 12, 13, 24, 42-43, no. 7, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

According to Valerie Leeds, the sale of the present work to the prestigious Rockefeller collection "was instrumental in convincing Lewandowski that he could sustain a career as an artist." (Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond, exhibition catalogue, Flint, Michigan, 2010, p. 13) Among his earliest successes, Lighthouse Service Station provided a source of inspiration for later works in Lewandowski's career.

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