The Pride of Algoma

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EDMUND LEWANDOWSKI (1914-1998)
The Pride of Algoma
signed 'E.D. Lewandowski' (lower right)—signed again and dated '-38' (on the reverse)
watercolor on paper
18 ¾ x 23 ¾ in. (47.6 x 60.3 cm.)
Executed in 1938.

Provenance

Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 2012.

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, 44-45, no. 8, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

According to Valerie Ann Leeds, the present work "shows Lewandowski's maturing graphic skills in the careful and delicate rendering of the buildings, sailboats, and landscape. It was in the boats and buildings of Algoma [Wisconsin] that Lewandowski began to envision the geometric potential of man-made structures, an idea he continued to pursue." (Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond, exhibition catalogue, Flint, Michigan, 2010, p. 13)

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