Untitled (12 unbound pages of drawings and poems for children), c.1927/1937

  • Martin Lewis, American, 1881-1962

Pen, black ink, graphite pencil on cream wove paper

  • 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)

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

1999.1736.6

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

In black ink, top center of sheet: Away deep Down, so Awful Deep, / In the Ocean, where the Lobsters creep; / Where the water's awful Dark and Green, / And hardly Anything can be seen; / Are funny fish, who carry alamp, / How it stays lighted in the damp, / I do not know - But it's on their heads; / They use it to light them to their beds.

Martin Lewis, Untitled (12 unbound pages of drawings and poems for children), c.1927/1937, pen, black ink, graphite pencil on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, 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, 1999.1736.6.