Icons of Industrial Expansion:
American Precisionist Prints, 1925-1941

This exhibition will present print works from American Precisionism, an art movement of the 1920s and 1930s that attempted to meet the psychological demand for order and logic following the chaos of World War I. Precisionist images reflected the explosive industrial growth of this period but sought to contain it within the tightly organized geometry and flat colors of an aesthetic driven by rationality and structure. Although Precisionist paintings, drawings, and watercolors have been the subject of exhibitions at major institutions such as the Walker Art Center, The Montclair Art Museum, and the Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University, this exhibition will be the first to concentrate exclusively on printmaking, a medium especially wellsuited to the movement's formal elements.

"Icons of Industrial Expansion" presents an excellent opportunity for an interdisciplinary exhibition which highlights the industrial expansion in America between the two world wars. The images depict skyscrapers, bridges, and factories in a streamlined "machine age" style by artists such as Howard Cook, Stuart Davis, Armin Landek, Louis Lozowick, and Charles Sheeler. This exhibition of prints will be curated by Marilyn Kushner, curator of prints and drawings at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

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