Norman Lewis
Untitled
1949-1959
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Norman Lewis
Untitled
1949-1959
Physical Qualities
Pastel, opaque watercolor, and graphite on paper, Sheet: 630 × 1010 mm. (24 13/16 × 39 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Joyce T. and H. Martin Weingartner
Object Number
2016.131
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2016; Joyce Weingartner, by gift; H. Martin Weingartner and Joyce Weingartner, Nashville, TN, by purchase; Willard Gallery, New York; the artist
Possibly exhibited at some point in the 1950s at the Willard Gallery in New York (see inscription on verso). The Willard Gallery represented Lewis's work from 1946 through 1965.
H. Martin Weingartner, "How Joyce & I Acquired the Norman Lewis Oil Painting and the Pastels & Ink on Paper," in "The International Review of African-American Art" (Vol. 26, no. 1, Winter-Spring 2016), p. 35.
Inscribed: Recto: at lower left, in brown ink: "NORMAN LEWIS"; Verso: at upper left, in graphite: "#200 - $400 Willard Gallery / III"
Markings: None
