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- Martin Lewis was an Australian-born American painter and printmaker best known for his representations of urban and pastoral landscapes. The artist’s work possessed an eerie quality, underscored by a subtle noir effect used to depict urban crime, as seen in his Bedford Street Gang (1935).
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Lewis is most famous for his black and white prints, mostly of night scenes of non-tourist, real life street scenes of New York City. [6] During the Depression, however, he was forced to leave the city for four years between 1932 and 1936 and move to Newtown, Connecticut.
Martin Lewis (1880-1962) is considered one of the greatest American printmakers of the first half of the twentieth century. He used his superb sense of composition and his technical skill as a master printmaker to create images of New York City and rural Connecticut that are as captivating today as they were in the late 1920’s when he was ...
Martin Lewis (American, 1881–1962) is recognized as a devoted Realist who employed his consummate skills in painting and printmaking to depict the everyday life of rural Connecticut and New York. His detailed illustrations of the countryside and cityscapes are internationally renowned.
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In 1920, dissatisfied with his job, Lewis used his entire savings to study art and to sketch in Japan. He returned to New York after a two-year stay and resumed his commercial art career, but also pursued his own work as a painter and printmaker.
Martin Lewis was an Australian-born American painter and printmaker best known for his representations of urban and pastoral landscapes. The artist’s work possessed an eerie quality, underscored by a subtle noir effect used to depict urban crime, as seen in his Bedford Street Gang (1935).
Lewis is most famous for his black and white prints, mostly of night scenes of non-tourist, real life street scenes of New York City. During the Depression, however, he was forced to leave the city for four years between 1932 and 1936 and move to Newtown, Connecticut.
Born in Australia, Lewis's affinity for art started early. He was from a working class family and his incessant drawing was viewed as lazy and unproductive, so he decided to leave and strike out on his own.
