Untitled (12 unbound pages of drawings and poems for children)

c.1927/1937

Martin Lewis American, 1881-1962

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Title Untitled (12 unbound pages of drawings and poems for children)

Artwork Date c.1927/1937

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 Pen, black ink, graphite pencil on cream wove paper

Dimensions Page (Folded): 10 1/2 × 7 5/8 inches (26.7 × 19.4 cm) Page (Unfolded): 10 1/2 × 14 3/4 inches (26.7 × 37.5 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mr. Robert M. Katzman and Mrs. Lisa Katzman in honor of Sidney and Betty Katzman and their children, Ellen and Laura, from the collection assembled by Patricia Lewis

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. 1999.1736.5

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Inscriptions In black ink, center of sheet: There's a little white house on top of the hill, / It sits up there, so very still, / It sits up there, beside a tree, / And seems as lonely as can be. / The little white house on top of the hill; / Sitting up there so very still; / It's always looking at the sky; / It wtaches all the clouds go by. / The clouds run races 'way up in the sky, / And don't look down, so don't know why / The little white house should sit so still / Watching and watching on the hill. / The clouds have run to their home in the west: / The birds have sung and gone to rest; / The little white house still looks at the sky: / I wonder, wonder, wonder why?

Marks Watermark: J WHATMA(N)

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