Gas is an expressionist, World War I drama by the German playwright Georg Kaiser about a rebellion at a plant producing poison gas. Lozowick designed the stage set for Marion Gerin's 1926 production of this play at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and this is one of several preparatory drawings. The artist used America's industrialized landscape as the inspiration for the set, which he intended "to be the crystallization of a vision fashioned by the rigid geometric pattern of the American city."
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2009
Credit: Museum purchase
1926
Pen and ink, brush and ink, tempera and pencil on paperboard
49.0 x 31.4cm
1976.10
Text: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2023
Image: 1926, Lee Lozowick
Image: 1926, Lee Lozowick
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