In 1958, I left advertising to be home with our firstborn son, Harry Joseph. 54″x40″ Oil on Canvas.īack of IBM Ciruit Racer (1966). IBM Circuit Tracer with Memory Transistors (1966). In 1953 George came home.ĬBS-TV Control Center (1983-1984) 72″x72″ Oil on Canvas. I left Pratt and got a job as a designer with Reba Sochis, did freelance design for Herb Lubalin, became an art director for Fairchild Publications and then promotion art director for Mademoiselle magazine. Four months later, George was drafted into the Army and sent to the front lines of the Korean War. When I saw his drawing I almost passed out!! I had never seen drawing like that! His line was so sure, and the drawing so stylized! I knew in a second that he was the real thing-he could draw!!! I would go with him to all the museums-and anywhere else!!!!Īugust 27,1951, we eloped. About ten minutes later, I thought I should be polite and look at his drawing, even though I doubted he was as talented as I was. Twenty minutes later, I was totally concentrating on my drawing when George came over to me, stared at my drawing and said, “Oh my God-can you draw!” I was annoyed by being interrupted, so I said, snootily, “Thank you very much.” So he went back to his own drawing. I took an easel nearer to the model and George took one a little behind me. The teacher told us to draw for an hour so she could see what we can do. 60″x40″ Oil on Canvas.īut the second week of school, we had our first drawing class. 60″ diameter Oil on Canvas.įird V-8 Engine: Pistone, Crankshaft & Camshaft (1962). Waltham Automobile Clock Mechanism (1967). Pratt & Whitney 9 Cylinder Radial Engine wiwth Propeller Hub (1968). I had spent my teenage years saving to come to art school and I couldn’t bring myself to believe him and leave the classes. Every day he tried to get me to skip school and go with him to the Brooklyn Museum or The Metropolitan Museum or the Museum of Modern Art. He had just graduated from the High School of Music and Art and he immediately realized the teachers at Pratt really didn’t know anything about the history of art, design or advertising (which was his special interest). In 1949, I went to Pratt Institute and met George Lois the first day of school. During summers, I worked on local farms picking strawberries, etc. But he sold his war bonds and bought a grocery store to save money for the tuition. He was thrilled, but his friends all told him he was wasting his money sending a girl to college because she’d only get married. When I was eleven, I told my father I wanted to go to art school in New York City to learn how to earn a living being an artist. My mother drew with me when I was three years old. 60″x36″ Oil on Canvas.Ĭutters on the Jarva Tunnel Boring Machine (1967). But I also wanted to know more about her life, which is shared in the autobiographical reflection below. They met and fell in love at school because both had the same passion for art and talent for drawing, and still do. If the Lois part of her name sounds familiar, it is because she is married for 66 years to advertising’s Big Idea pioneer George Lois. These machines are not simply made of things, but of thoughts and emotion. Each hyper detailed object in her oeuvre speaks of the twentieth and twenty-first century’s mechanical hold on daily life and human behavior while also taking on curious and magical aspects of the life force. She has transcended the impersonal aspects of the machine and renders the with human feeling. Rosemary Lewandowski-Lois is an incredible artist.
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