Mount Fuji, between 1920 and 1922

  • Martin Lewis, American, 1881-1962

Graphite pencil on wove paper

  • Sheet: 9 3/4 × 11 1/4 inches (24.8 × 28.6 cm)

Gift of Patricia Lewis and Family

1996.229.6

Stamp, in black, verso: [circular collection stamp of Lucile Deming Lewis]

Inscribed, upper left corner: half hour later, mountain warm orange gray | blue shadow edge sharply defined at base - | trees silhouetted against mountain Inscribed, upper right corner: very clear pale opal | sky | snow on top - lower | value than sky Inscribed, along right top edge of mountain: rose | pink snow Inscribed, on upper portion of mountain just below snow line: very warm purple | reddish spots Inscribed, center of mountain: darkening to bluish purple Inscribed, on roof at lower left: wet roof showing line of | lathing Inscribed, on roof at lower right: tin roof painted red - | wet showing reflection of sky - white | blue gray lozenges - Inscribed, in pencil by ML, on parallel roof in extreme lower right: black tin roof Inscribed, vertically, upper left edge: 10. L.D.L. Inscribed, verso: L.D.L. 11 Inscribed, inside collection stamp, verso: LDL 820

1996-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Martin Lewis, Mount Fuji, between 1920 and 1922, graphite pencil on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Patricia Lewis and Family, 1996.229.6.