Stoops in Snow

1930

Martin Lewis American, 1881-1962

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About the Artwork

A majority of Martin Lewis’s prints deal with the nuances of vision. Typically, Lewis concentrated on translating a split second of activity. His prints are like snapshots that capture people in poses and scenes that rarely remain stationary. Often, Lewis organized his compositions from an unusual perspective or point of view and included bad weather or interesting sources of light. Dealing with these latter conditions allowed the artist to experiment with the depiction of fleeting forms such as shadows, silhouettes, reflections, the wind, rain, snow, intense light, or the night. Stoops in the Snow is among many of Lewis’s masterful achievements. To suggest accumulating snow on the streets of New York, Lewis created a density of dots by pressing sandpaper into a soft-ground coating on the plate. In other areas, he selectively scraped the plate clean to produce wispy, inkless “white” lines that represent gusting wind and swirling snow.

Title Stoops in Snow

Artwork Date 1930

Artist Martin Lewis

Life Dates 1881-1962

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Drypoint and sandpaper ground printed in black ink on wove paper

Dimensions Plate: 10 × 15 inches (25.4 × 38.1 cm) Sheet: 13 5/8 × 18 3/8 inches (34.6 × 46.7 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Bequest of Hal H. Smith

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 45.299

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Signed Signed, in plate, lower left: MARTIN LEWIS Signed, in pencil, lower right: Martin Lewis-

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, lower left edge: STOOPS IN THE SNOW

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Hal H. Smith

1945-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Martin Lewis, Stoops in Snow, 1930, drypoint and sandpaper ground printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Hal H. Smith, 45.299.