About the Artwork
Study for Shadow Magic
ca. 1939
Martin Lewis
1881-1962
American
Unknown
Black crayon and possibly white colored pencil on brown wove paper
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 7/8 inches (36.2 × 25.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert and Lisa Katzman
2001.19
© Ruth Lewis, granddaughter of the artist Martin Lewis
Markings
Signed, in pencil, on the sheet of oriental paper that reinforces the entire sheet, lower right, verso: Martin Lewis | P.L.
Inscribed, in black crayon, lower center: [E]uclid alone has looked on beauty bare
Provenance
2001-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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© Ruth Lewis, granddaughter of the artist Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis, Study for Shadow Magic, ca. 1939, black crayon and possibly white colored pencil on brown wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert and Lisa Katzman, 2001.19.
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