Artist: Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957)
Nationality: Canadian
Movement: Vorticism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Canadian born, Percy Wyndham Lewis, moved to England with his mother in 1892 where he studied at the Slade School of Art. In 1911, he studied with the avant-garde Camden Group in London and the Omega Workshops in 1917. His Vorticist Manifesto was published in the magazine published by the Omega Workshops, title Blast, in 1914. Lewis served as a British war artist in World War I, and incorporated his Vorticist concepts to his military service. Although blind in his old age, Lewis continued to teach and write.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Pompeo Batoni - Portrait of Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 1758-1759 1758-1759 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
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Jacobus Houbraken (Sr. William Wyndham Bart.) 1741
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James Millar - Lady Algernon Percy c. 1777-1780 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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James Millar - Lord Algernon Percy c. 1777-1780 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Adriaan Hanneman - Portrait of Lady Lucy Percy c. 1665 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Dutch
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Percy Gray California Oak Etching 19th - 20th century
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Percy Gray The Old Wheel Etching 19th - 20th century
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Percy Gray The Old Farm Etching 19th - 20th century
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Percy Gray Into the Valley Etching 19th - 20th century
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Henry Rayner Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Drypoint 1914
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Thomas Phillips - Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberlan 1803 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Percy Gray A Study of Trees Etching 19th - 20th century
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Percy Gray Farm Buildings Etching 19th - 20th century
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Percy Gray Pastoral Eucalyptus Etching 19th - 20th century
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Percy Grassby Hoosac Vallery aquatint 1927
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Percy Thomas Young woman with hat ET 1870
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Percy Thomas La Belle Hamilton 1827
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Percy Lancaster The First Edition Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Percy Thomas Lady with a harp ET 19th - 20th century
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Percy Lancaster Print Connoisseurs Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Percy Thomas Lady Henrietta Boyle. Countess of Rochester 1831
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Percy Thomas Sailboat anchored in harbour, houses in background ET 1898
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Isabelle Clark Percy Granada, Spain Color lithograph from five stones 19th - 20th century
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Percy J. Sabin Portrait of Samuel Adams 20th century
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William Finden Percy Bysche Shelley 18th - 19th century
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Percy Francis Gethin An Irish Peat-bog Etching 1913
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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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Percy Robertson Richmond, Yokshire etching 19th - 20th century
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Percy Francis Gethin Musicians Etching 19th - 20th century
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Percy Robertson The Tower of London Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Percy Robertson St. Paul's Cathedral from the River Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Percy Francis Gethin Church in Spain Etching 19th - 20th century
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Percy Francis Gethin Traveling Circus Etching 19th - 20th century
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Percy W. I. Buckman A pass through rocky mountains, Eastem Country Etching 19th - 20th century
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Artist: Adriaan Hanneman Title: Portrait of Lady Lucy Percy Date: 17th century Medium: oil on
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Percy Robertson Street Scene in London Etching 19th - 20th century
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George Loftus Noyes, American (born in Canada), 1864-1954 September Haze about 1913 Oil on canvas
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Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Lucy Percy (1600?–1660), Countess of Carlisle, 1653 Samuel
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Percy Robertson The National Gallery from the Steps of St. Martin's in the Field Etching 19th - 20th century
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George Percy Jacomb-Hood "At last him..." Illustration for the Faerie Queene Etching 19th - 20th century
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George Percy Jacomb-Hood Bathing horses in the Seine Etching 19th - 20th century
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Percy Macquoid The Reign of Terror - p.569 Harper's Weekly, 21 July 1877 wood engraving 19th - 20th century
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George Percy Jacomb-Hood "The gentle Knight..." Illustration for the Faerie Queene Etching 19th - 20th century
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John Frederick Lewis Cover for Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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T. H. Hair Four Small Images; 1)St. Lawrence Colliery, 2)Percy Pit Colliery, 3)Bottom Of The Shaft, Wall Bottle Colliery, 4)Drops At Wallsend. 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Sleeping Lion, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Head Of A Tigress, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Lion and Lioness, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Sleeping Lion, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Head of A Lion, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Sleeping Lion and Lioness, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Cover sheet and dedication from Lewis' Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra made during a residence in Granadae in the years 1833-4. Drawn on stone by J.D. Harding, R.J. Lane, A.R.A.W. Gauci & John F. Lewis. 19th century
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Martin Lewis Subway Steps Drypoint 1931
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John Singleton Copley - Colonel George Lewis 1794 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Frederick Christian Lewis (the elder) Scenery of the Rivers of England and Wales (London: Longmanä [and] for the proprietor F. C. Lewis, [1845]) book with etchings 1845
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Martin Lewis Grandpa Takes a Walk Drypoint circa 1933
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Martin Lewis Landeck (winter landscape) Drypoint 1933
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Martin Lewis Derricks at Night Etching-drypoint 1927
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Martin Lewis Chance Meeting Etching-drypoint 1941
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Martin Lewis Ice Cream Cones Drypoint and sand ground 1928
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Frederick Christian Lewis (the elder) Dartmoor near Holne, first plate in the book, Scenery of the Rivers of England and Wales (London: Longmanä [and] for the proprietor F. C. Lewis, [1845]) etching 1845
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Artist: John Frederick Lewis, R.A. Title: Murillo Painting the Virgin in the Franciscan Convent at
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Martin Lewis Spring Night, Greenwich Village Etching-drypoint 1930
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John Wesley Jarvis - Portrair of Lewis Colford Jones n.d. oil on canvas Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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John Frederick Lewis Contrabandistas, Andalusia. seventh plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Puerta del Sol, Madrid, sixth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis A Girl of Seville, thirteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1833
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John Frederick Lewis Muleteers of Ronda, eleventh plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis Ronda:Andalusia, tenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1833
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John Frederick Lewis Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Book with 26 color lithographs: 25 full-page plates and title with vignette 1836
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John Frederick Lewis A Scene in the Arena, title page vignette in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Interior of a Posada, Segovia, twenty-fifth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Begging Friars, Granada, twentieth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Mendicant Friars receiving Alms, second plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Smuggling Feluchos; Gibraltar, sixteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Peasants of the Province of Granada, twenty-second plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis Bullfighter, a scene in the arena, fourth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis The Mosque at Cordova (The Cathedral), nineteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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Rembrandt Peale - Portrait of Commander Lewis Warrington (1782-1851) 1801-02 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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John Frederick Lewis Distant View of the Sierra Nevada, eighth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Interior of the Convent: the Prior*s Apartment, twenty-third plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Gitanas, Gypsy Girls of Ronda, fifteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1833
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John Frederick Lewis Peasant Girl on a Mule, Andalusia, ninth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis Gaucin Smugglers coming out of Gibraltar, eighteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1833
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John Frederick Lewis Chapel of the Villa Viciosa, Cordova, twenty-first plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis Plaza de San Francisco: the great square of Seville, third plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Spanish Ladies: habited in the Maja dress of Andalusia...,fifth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Peasants dancing the Bolero. A Scene in Granada., frontispiece and first plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis A Convent Door, Toledo (San Juan de los Reyes), twelfth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis A Jewish Woman of Gibraltar, in a Fiesta Dress, seventeenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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Allen Lewis Twilight Toil Color woodcut 1931 - 1932
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Thomas Gainsborough - Portrait of Lewis Bagot, Bishop of Bristol (1740-1802) 1770-1774 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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John Frederick Lewis Sala Capitular (Chapter House), Cathedral of Toledo, twenty-fourth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Tophana 19th century
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Allen Lewis Prison Ship Monument chine colle 19th - 20th century
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Jeannette Maxfield Lewis High Walls Etching 1949
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Lucy Martin Lewis Vessel Earthenware, pigment ca. 1960
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John Frederick Lewis Jose Maria, a celebrated Brigand, (Shot by his confederates in an attempt to betray themt o the Government, 1833), fourteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [18
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Allen Lewis The Tennessee Mountain Sisters color woodcut 19th - 20th century
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John Frederick Lewis Entance to the Mosque 19th century

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:
Adam Kurtzman
Flip Flop
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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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