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Edmund Lewandowski (1914-1998) was the foremost second-generation American Precisionist painter. This landmark exhibition is the first major retrospective of this important American artist. Organized by the Flint Institute of Arts in Flint, Mich., the exhibit traces Lewandowski鈥檚 development as a painter鈥攆rom his early works exploring the beautiful and dark aspects of industry to his later years, when landscapes became planes of abstract shapes vibrating with color.

Lewandowski is credited with helping to form the Precisionist movement in painting. Fascinated by the abstract forms of the industrial landscape and machinery, the Precisionists did not seek to render the reality of these scenes, but instead to refine them into crisply defined geometric shapes. During his lifetime, he received much critical acclaim for his paintings that celebrate aspects of industrialized America. Over the course of a long career, he worked in a range of styles from Precisionist to non-objective, using varied media, including oil, watercolor, gouache and painted and mosaic murals. The exhibition will include around 50 works of art, ranging from representational to non-objective interpretations of his predominant subject matter: industrial imagery.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue that includes an essay by its curator, Dr. Valerie Ann Leeds, examining Lewandowski鈥檚 work, his critical reception and his relationship to other Precisionist artists.