Artist: Norman Lewis (1909 - 1979)
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in New York City, Norman Lewis focused his work on African-American life in Harlem. He studied at Columbia University with help from the WPA project in the 1930’s and later worked with Augusta Savage. He also was commissioned by the WPA to decorate the Harlem Art Center with many other black artists. In the 1930’s Lewis began to veer towards abstraction, eventually joining the Spiral Group in the 1960’s, which produced art in response to the civil rights movement. Lewis worked at the Art Student’s League and helped found the Cinque Gallery with fellow African-American Artists, Ernie Crichlow and Romare Bearden.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Norman Lewis - Untitled 1949 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Norman Lewis - Prehistory 1952 oil on canvas Dayton Arts Institute American
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Alfred Stieglitz, New York
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Alfred Stieglitz, An American Place, New York
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Jean-Francois Millet - A Norman Milkmaid at Greville 1871 oil on cardboard Los Angeles County Museum of Art French
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Norman Lindsay, From the Moon, 1920
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Norman Lindsay, Release, 1925
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Norman Lindsay, The Windmill, 1924
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Norman Lindsay, The Mantilla, 1925
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Norman Lindsay, Delight, 1924
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Norman Lindsay, The Eighties, 1926
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Norman Lindsay, Charles, 1926
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Irving Norman, From Work, 1979
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Gilbert Stuart - Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (Mrs. Lawrence Lewis) 1804 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Norman Lindsay, Beethoven, 1921
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Norman Lindsay, Two Lovers, 1924
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Norman Lindsay, Moonlights Piper, 1925
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Stieglitz & Steichen
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James McBey, A Norman Port, 1916
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Norman Lundin, Studio Corridor #14, 1983
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Norman Lindsay, Allegro Vivace-8th Symphony, 1925
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Alfred Stieglitz, New York
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David Young Cameron, A Norman Village, 1904
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Norman Lindsay, The C-Sharp Minor Quartet, 1927
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Norman Hirst, Arundel Castle, 19th - 20th century
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Norman Hirst, Earnley Mill, 19th - 20th century
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Julia Margaret Cameron, Portrait of Charles Norman, circa 1868
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John Frederick Lewis, Cover for Lewis" Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals, 1824
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John Frederick Lewis, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]), 1836
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John Frederick Lewis, Sleeping Lion, from Lewis" Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals, 1824
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John Frederick Lewis, Sleeping Lion, from Lewis" Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals, 1824
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John Frederick Lewis, Head of A Lion, from Lewis" Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals, 1824
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John Frederick Lewis, Head Of A Tigress, from Lewis" Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals, 1824
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John Frederick Lewis, Lion and Lioness, from Lewis" Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals, 1824
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Herbert Railton, Norman Gateway, Windsor Castle, 19th - 20th century
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Herbert Railton, Norman Gateway, Windsor Castle, 19th - 20th century
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Thomas Norman Janes, The Rope Merchants, Greenwich, 19th - 20th century
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Herbert Railton, Norman Gateway, Windsor Castle., 19th - 20th century
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John Frederick Lewis, Sleeping Lion and Lioness, from Lewis" Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals, 1824
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Norman Orr, Bill Graham Presents (269) B.B. King; Ballin" Jack, Fillmore West, 2/4-7/71, 1971

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Institute of International Visual Arts: Andrew Lewis: Systems
Southern Hospitality is realised in fired ceramic, which represents a 'new media' for Lewis. A clutch of houses nestles at the bottom of a cliff. A white precipice overhangs this terrace of homeliness, whilst the waves lap ominously below. Here...
31 Grand: The Black Death by Jason Clay Lewis
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Jason Clay Lewis
Black Tide (detail), 2003
30 gallon stainless steel barrel, acrylic
27 1/8 x 14 3/4 x 14 3/4>The story is told through a series of sculpture, photography, video, and drawings. The icons of Jasons nar...
Dayton Art Institute: REFLECTIONS IN A LOOKING GLASS: A Centenary Lewis Carroll Centenial Exhibition
Carroll, the pseudonym of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, led an exuberant creative life that spanned many subjects and artistic forms. For the first time and with unprecedented depth, this exhibition assembles materials from across a ran...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Lewis Watts: Photographs
His imagery is made succinct by a careful attention to formal composition that combines found reality with esthetical elements. Since 1978, he has been a Lecturer in Photography and...
Photographer's Gallery: Dave Lewis: Photographs and Text Combine to Address Racism
Artist Dave Lewis, using selected quotes from the Sir William Macpherson Inquiry - the official document generated in the wake of Stephen Lawrence's murder, published in 1999 - has created a dialogue between the public manifestation of th...
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art: Trailing Lewis and Clark, Featuring the Art of Ken Holder
Artist Ken Holder, inspired by Stephen Ambrose’s book, “Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West,” traveled the trail of Lewis and Clark. He was excited by the thought of creating his own “voyage o...
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Mark Lewis: Large-Scale Film Installations
Mark Lewis's work functions as a critique of cinema, encouraging the viewer's awareness of the clichés, conventions and fragmentary nature of film, and how it has been constructed historically. In so doing, he also acknowledges its suggestive pow...
198 Gallery: Vision Light: Work by Artists with Visual Impairment
Led by Trinidadian artist Mario Lewis, the Vision Light series of workshops aimed at giving a group of diverse visually impaired individuals an opportunity to explore and communicate how they experience being both audiences and makers of art. The ...
Fotografisk Center: LEWIS CARROLL: a retrospective (1856-1879)
The exhibition is retrospective and covers the period from 1856 to1879. The original photographs were made via the wet collodian method, an early and very demanding technique of which Carroll was a master. His career as an artist / photographer be...
Presentation House Gallery: The Altered Landscape: Photographs from the Nevada Museum
The exhibition of 37 artists includes: Robert Adams, considered to be one of the most important photographers working today, who has been documenting the environmental destruction of the American West in the late 20th century. Richard Misrach and ...
York Quay Centre: Painting Over the Lines: Work by Five Contemporary Artists from Pakistan
Rashid Rana, one of the artists in York Quay Gallery's Painting Over the Lines exhibition, makes a special presentation on his process of creating art. Rana hires skilled billboard painters to realize some of his large works referencing pop-ar...
ArtHaus: Revelations: New Works in Various Media
Artists also included in this exhibition are: Andrea Arroyo, Astrid, Suzanne Benton, Brian Blood, Deborah Brown, Marc Lambrechts, Joanne Landis, Samuel F. Lewis and Carol Schiavo. IMAGE:
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Sestri Restaurant & Gallery: A Show for the Girls
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Strand on Volta: Meat and You: Works by Graham Caldwell, Frank Day, Stephen E. Lewis and William Newman
Graham Caldwell’s work captures perfectly the mystery of being in a natural history museum for the first time. Using glass, he transforms organic forms – objects that are lightweight, gentle, and organic – into objects that are heavyweight, massiv...
Yale School of Architecture Galleries: Transcending Type:
"Transcending Type" presents their designs, which range from the "humanized" highway interchange by the firm Reiser + Umemoto to the installation by Predock_Frane for a contemplative space, made up of 5,000 barely visible green and white suspended...
Taft Museum of Art: The Great Migration: The Evolution of African American Art, 1790-1945
Included are works by painters Joshua Johnston, Henry O. Tanner, Duncanson and Horace Pippin; photographer James P. Ball; and sculptor Edmonia Lewis amon...
Art Dealers Association of Greater Washington: Art At The Millenium: Part II
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Columbus Museum of Art: The Art of Humane Propaganda
This exhibition brings together 44 vintage prints, on loan from the Ohio State University, together with earlier examples by American social documentary photographer Lewis Hine. Hines work, on loan from ...
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium: Drawings: Armand Simon
He rarely leaves his house in Pâturages and remains an odd recluse within the movement. Thanks to purchases, but principally to his widow's legacy of a thousand of his works (in 1987), completed with another legacy by Irène Hamoir, the Museum n...
National Museum of Women in the Arts: M.L. Van Nice: The Library at Wadi ben Dagh
“M.L. Van Nice’s books inspire a different kind of reading than we usually practice,” says Krystyna Wasserman, Curator of Book Arts. “This installation forces the viewer to look at literary masterpieces in a new way; we find ourselves in a wonderl...
Durango Arts Center: Trio Series: Group Two Exhibit by Colorado Artists
Ric Peterson studied art at Southern Illinois University and received private instruction under arts masters in Rome, Guatemala, Japan and Australia. He has exhibited in both British Columbia and Australia, and has worked as a graphic designer and...
Detroit Institute of Arts: The Enduring Horizon: American Landscape Photographs from the Collection
Early photographic pioneers William Henry Jackson, Timothy OSullivan and Carleton Watkins chronicle and interest in the exploration of the American West during the 19th century. Also featured are images of urban and suburban ...
Addison Gallery of American Art: To Conserve a Legacy American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Additional support has been generously provided by The Henry Luce Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Greentree Foundation, the Joseph Harrison Jackson Fo...
Oakville Galleries: Weathervane: Curated by Karen Love
The exhibition features works by Marlene Creates, Paterson Ewen, Rodney Graham, Tania Kitchell, Mark Lewis, Richard Rhodes, Seifollah Samadian, Alan Storey, T & T (Tyler Brett and Tony Romano), Diana Thater, Lawrence Weiner and Chris Welsby. ...
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts: Life-Size: Photographs by Cynthia Greig
Any sense of natural order or familiarity is disturbed by the uneasy relationships found between human subjects and the miniscule objects they attempt to master. Greigs photographs examine the betrayal of appearance, and the deception of nostalgi...
DELUXE-ARTS Gallery and Creative Space: The Jokes on Us
The show, which opens with Rosie Coopers renowned Oscar acceptance speech, promises an eclectic mix of style and medium, from sound and video installations to performance events, combining in joyful celebration of the daft and obscure. Visual il...
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University: L'ÉCHO DES LIMBES: David Altmejd, Patrice Duhamel, Michael A. Robinson and Ève K. Tremblay
Whether through dreams, tales, delirium or the absurd, these artists create a multi-referential iconography opening onto parallel worlds. They propose the exploration of an elsewhere, of an outside time, even of another duration, in which the proc...
New-York Historical Society: From the Classroom to the World: Hine, Ulman, Strand, Arbus and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School
From the Classroom to the World represents the first exhibition to examine the crucial, formative role of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the work of some of the United States' most important photographers, whose work helped define the cou...
Phoenix Art Museum: Keeping Shadows: Photography from the Worcester Art Museum
From daguerreotypes to digital prints, it includes masterworks by such innovators and icons of the medium as Alfred Stieglitz, Matthew Brady, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Cecil Beaton, Walker...
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Performing Photography
Performing Photography features a range of images of performances, from those staged specifically for the camera to documentation of public performance works. On view is a work by Vito Acconci for which he shot a p...

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