Artist Martin Lewis, American, 1881-1962
Title
  • Untitled (12 unbound pages of drawings and poems for children)
Date c.1927/1937
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)
Credit Line 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 1999.1736.7
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Inscriptions In black ink, center of sheet: It's quite funny, when you're Three, /
That you just begin to see /
Lots of things you never knew /
When you were just One or Two. /

When I was just One and Two; /
Lots of things I couldn't do; /
And now, lots of things I see /
Only since I have been Three /

I'd rather be Three than Four, /
Five or Six, or Seven, or more; /
To be Three is much more fun
Than being only Two or One.