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In “Black House, Bleecker Street,” the clearly delineated thick-to-thin linework of the sky becomes a stylized framing of the painted building; rounded shapes are repeated in cast shadows and light, contrasting with the otherwise ruler-straight lines of the architecture. The scene becomes an elegantly formal rendering of an everyday city corner. According to Landeck, this building, which is no longer standing, was really a black house. It was on the corner of Bleecker and West Broadway in Manhattan.

Armin Landeck, printmaker and educator, was born in Crandon, Wisconsin on June 4, 1905. He studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and received his Bachelors of Architecture from Columbia University in 1927. Landeck studied printmaking at Columbia University and produced his first prints in 1927.