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Accession #	1991.45
Artist	Louis Lozowick
Title	Coney Island
Date	1935
Medium	Casein on paper
Dimensions	13 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (33.7 x 24.8cm)
Credit Line	Purchased with funds given by Nona Breen and Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Location	Visible Storage: Case 23, Screen H (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks:

"LUNA": This single word was enough to signal to any early twentieth-century viewer that he was looking at an image of the mechanized wonder of Coney Island. The Russian-born Louis Lozowick was one of many modern artists drawn to the exciting light show of Coney Island's Luna Park, known as the Electric Eden. He combined cropped and abstracted elements of this leisure mecca's most famous attractions, including the Ferris wheel, the steeplechase ridge, and exotic illuminated minarets.