Margaret Lowengrund
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Margaret Lowengrund was an American artist and a key figure in the American Print Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Lowengrund attended at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and also studied
Interior of Brickyard, ca. 1935
The Elevated, ca.1936
Lithography
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Lithography is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by
A lithograph of Charles Marion Russell's The Custer Fight (1903), with the range of tones fading toward the edges.
This very early colour lithograph from 1835 uses large washes of orange and cyan with black ink providing the details.
A lithographer at work, 1880.
Lithography machine in Bibliotheca Alexandrina.