Alabama, an oil on canvas by Norman Lewis, circa 1960 (Barbara Katus - Amon Carter Museum of American Art) Blending , an oil and ink on canvas by Lewis, circa 1951(Supplied - Amon Carter Museum of ...

Norman Lewis (1909–1979), in the last two decades of his life, fused black struggle with abstract painting. This was not the only way in which he was a unique and significant 20th-century artist.

The show was overseen by Ruth Fine, who served in 1980-2002 as the curator of modern prints and drawings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She became a Lewis admirer after ...

While Lewis did find success during his lifetime — in 1955, he was the first African-American artist to be awarded the Carnegie International Award in Painting, and New York’s respected Marian ...

In 1960, famed Black artist Norman Lewis made a trip to Cape Cod. He visited his friends, Hampton and Marguerite Gill, and somehow ended up painting a piece on the chimney of their house in South ...

Toward the end of his life in 1972, African-American artist Norman Lewis wrote an eye-catching pitch to a New York gallerist: “I have read that you have not stopped discovering talent and ...

The second is regret, over what has been to this point our general ignorance of a singular American artist; more than 35 years after his death in 1979, Lewis is only now receiving his first full ...

Self-portrait (1939) of Norman Lewis, wax pastel and gouache on paper In her 1930 self-portrait, Krasner looks directly at the viewer, hostile and, like Lewis, aloof. She’s giving no quarter.

A black and white photograph of the artist Norman Lewis in his New York City studio. Lewis is pictured sitting and leaning slightly with his left arm on his left knee. He wears a checked shirt and ...

December 27, 2015 / 12:31 PM EST / CBS Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The evolving styles of Harlem-born artist Norman Lewis are on display in a major retrospective at a museum in Philadelphia.