Inscr. upper right: Lux; verso at right on the canvas: Th. LUX Nov. 41 The Cuyhoga Engine
TLF: "The Cuyahoga Engine", 1941 [101]; "The Cuyahoga Engine", 1941 New York [102, Nr. 107]
Whereabouts not known
Provenance: 1959 sold from the exhibition at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, through the agency of Mr. Jim Dyett to Mrs. James Ely, Buffalo, NY; 2022 Cottone Auctions, Geneseo NY, lot 149
TLF: "one more painting done during my tenancy at 129 Perry St. is The Cuyahoga Engine... A high-stepping, “inside-connected” locomotive ... standing against the sunset sky in a reddish wasteland. The bearded engineer stands in the cab, ... erect on top of the tender is a soldier in Zouave uniform..., a third figure ... is clod in the Civil War uniform of an officer... In the foreground are two more figures... advancing towards the spectator... A man, visible only from the waist up; slightly behind him..., a woman in the dress of a cow-girl... I had in mind something like the release of two evil emissaries in enemy territory; if this were a Civil War scene, the target of the saboteurs would be the Confederacy. But this is much too literal an interpretation of my thought. I said within me: Why must we always suffer the destruction wrought by the enemy’s Fifth Columnists and Quislings? ... And by “the war” I meant, not only the presently ongoing “World War II”, but the war within myself, where good intentions fight against evil inclinations." [105]
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