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Martin Lewis

Martin Lewis

Australian-American, 1881

WA-00028185

Victoria, Australia

Drawing

Representation

None documented

6

Institutional Exhibitions

29

Works in Collection

49

Assets Indexed

4

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

80%

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ6776001 ULAN500028815

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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Art of the Twenties

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979–1980

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American Prints: 1913�1963

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974–1975

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Manhattan Observed

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1968

No image

American Prints of the 20th Century

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1954

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Three Centuries of American Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1938

Field Verification (4 fields)

4 cross-verified · 0 single-source

BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
LocationMoMA· 93%✓
NationalityMoMA· 93%✓

Source Registry (2)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/martin-lewis
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/3523
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Martin Lewis was an American printmaker and painter active in the early twentieth century, working primarily in etching and lithography. Based in New York, he developed a distinctive urban realist vocabulary centered on city streets, tenement life, and industrial scenes rendered with precise linear technique. His prints captured the texture and movement of metropolitan experience during the interwar period. Lewis worked across multiple print mediums with sustained attention to atmospheric effect and social observation.

Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

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Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (29)

Chance Meeting

1940 · Drypoint

plate: 8 7/8 × 7 1/2" (22.6 × 19 cm); sheet: 15 3/8 × 10 11/16" (39 × 27.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Boss of the Block

1939 · Etching and aquatint

Sheet: 15 9/16 × 11 in. (39.5 × 27.9 cm) Plate: 11 1/8 × 7 5/16 in. (28.3 × 18.6 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Which Way

1936 · Aquatint on white wove paper

Image/plate: 26.4 × 40.2 cm (10 7/16 × 15 7/8 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 49 cm (14 1/16 × 19 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Winter on White Street

1934 · drypoint

Cleveland Museum of Art

Wet Night, Route 6

Wet Night, Route 6

1933 · Drypoint on pale blue laid paper

Image/plate: 22.5 × 37.2 cm (8 7/8 × 14 11/16 in.); Sheet: 33.1 × 46.7 cm (13 1/16 × 18 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Two A.M.

1932 · Drypoint and sand ground on cream laid paper

Image: 22.5 × 37.5 cm (8 7/8 × 14 13/16 in.); Sheet: 31 × 45 cm (12 1/4 × 17 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Night in New York

Night in New York

1932 · Etching on cream laid paper

Image/plate: 21.5 × 22.4 cm (8 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 34 × 30.4 cm (13 7/16 × 12 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Little Penthouse

1931 · Drypoint

plate 10 x 7" (25.4 x 17.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Outside a Meeting Hall

Outside a Meeting Hall

1930 · Graphite on cream wove paper

24.7 × 34.8 cm (9 3/4 × 13 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Arch, Midnight

1930 · Drypoint on cream laid paper

Image/plate: 20.5 × 29.4 cm (8 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.); Sheet: 27.4 × 40.7 cm (10 13/16 × 16 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1930 · drypoint

Cleveland Museum of Art

Subway Steps

1930 · Drypoint

plate: 13 3/4 x 8 3/16" (34.9 x 20.8 cm); sheet: 17 5/16 x 10 7/8" (44 x 27.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Glow of the City

Glow of the City

1929 · Drypoint on cream wove paper

Image/plate: 29 × 36.5 cm (11 7/16 × 14 3/8 in.); Sheet: 35.1 × 45.3 cm (13 7/8 × 17 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for "Corner Shadows"

Cleveland Museum of Art

1929 · drypoint

Platemark: 21.1 x 22.4 cm (8 5/16 x 8 13/16 in.); Sheet: 27.9 x 31.1 cm (11 x 12 1/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Detail Study for Corner Shadows

1929 · graphite heightened with white chalk

Cleveland Museum of Art

Building a Babylon, Tudor City, NY

1929 · drypoint

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Glow of the City

The Glow of the City

1929 · Drypoint

plate: 11 7/16 x 14 7/16" (29.1 x 36.6cm); sheet: 14 5/16 x 18 7/8" (36.3 x 47.9cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Fifth Avenue Bridge

Fifth Avenue Bridge

1928 · Drypoint on cream laid paper

Image: 24.9 × 29.9 cm (9 13/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Plate: 25.2 × 30.3 cm (9 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 34 × 40 cm (13 7/16 × 15 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

East Side Night, Williamsburg Bridge

East Side Night, Williamsburg Bridge

1928 · Etching on cream laid paper

Image/plate: 25 × 30.2 cm (9 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 34 × 40 cm (13 7/16 × 15 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

East Side Night, Williamsburg Bridge

1928 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

Derricks at Night

1927 · Drypoint

Sheet (sight): 8 5/8 × 12 1/2 in. (21.9 × 31.8 cm) Plate (sight): 7 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (20 × 30.2 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Tabloid Readers

Tabloid Readers

1927 · Drypoint

plate: 7 × 9 7/8" (17.8 × 25.1 cm); sheet: 10 5/8 × 14" (27 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Derricks at Night

Derricks at Night

1927 · Drypoint

plate: 7 15/16 x 11 7/8" (20.1 x 30.1cm); sheet: 11 x 16 3/8" (28 x 41.6cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (4)

29 published of 35 catalogued · 24 with image

Art Institute Chicago
13 published13 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published
MoMA
6 publishedof 12 catalogued11 img
Whitney
3 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)

7 entries · 1 sources

Detail Study for Corner Shadows
1929 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Corner Shadows
1929 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Arch. Midnight
1930 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Study for "Corner Shadows"
1929 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Building a Babylon, Tudor City, NY
1929 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Winter on White Street
1934 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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East Side Night, Williamsburg Bridge
1928 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

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Arch, Midnight (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

5

Collections5

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

Market

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