Selected
Magazine
Covers
and
Paintings
1937-1998
As
a
mature artist, one of
Edmund Lewandowski’s goals was to represent “in my paintings the beauty
of machinery and industrial processes.” The
strong sense of visual order and precision of design
in
Lewandowski’s works belongs to an artistic movement known as
Precisionism, an American style of painting in which industrial scenes
and architectural
motifs,
devoid of human figures, are depicted in a simple, clear, geometric and
almost
abstract manner.
The Precisionist style
that Lewandowski used in his paintings was a style he also adapted to
illustration during the 1940s. Edmund
Lewandowski was prolific as a designer of magazine
covers during
this time and several covers from Fortune
Magazine are
represented in the images presented together with examples
of the
artist’s Precisionist paintings from 1937-1998.
The painting to the left is Lewandowski's final
painting, Sturgeon Bay Lighthouse,
completed
in March of 1998. Soon after the painting was signed, the
artist was diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Edmund Lewandowski
died in September
1998
