Herbert Lewis'After the Storm', Carmel, California, Paris, Académie Julian, New York, AIC, 1928
$3,600
'After the Storm', Carmel, California, Paris, Académie Julian, New York, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'After the Storm' by Herbert Lewis. Carmel, California, Paris, Académie Julian, New York, Art Institute of Chicago ----- Signed lower right, 'Herbert Lewis' (American, 1893-1962) and inscribed 'Caques 1928 and Tucson 1950'. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Herbert Taylor Lewis was known as a painter of abstracts, still lives and figure studies painted with a vivid palette in a bold Modernist style. Lewis first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and, subsequently, in Europe including at the Académie Julian in Paris during the birth of Modernism and Cubism in the early part of the 20th century. Upon his return to the United State, he kept a studio in New York City for several years but, by 1920, was living and painting in Arizona. In the late 1920s and 1930s, Lewis was working as an art instructor at Rockford College, Illinois, and, from 1943 to 1954, was a resident of Tucson. By the early 1930s, he lived part time in California...
1950s Fiberboard Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Gouache, Fiberboard, Watercolor
