One Way

Graphite drawing on textured wove paper.

This composition was also painted in larger format around the same time; the painting is extant but its whereabouts unknown at present. This drawing, however, was most definitely intended to be used as a transfer drawing for a lithograph that never came to be. While the painting has the one-way sign in the right direction, the drawing has it in mirror-image, clearly intended to be transferred to stone as such, so as to print right-sided. Mosca, who tended to used mostly smooth papers for his drawings, used a textured sheet for this one, mimicking the grain of the lithographic stone. Several of Mosca’s modernist cityscapes were made into lithographs, seemingly later in the late 1970s.

Signed and dated in pencil below the composition.