Martin Lewis Artist Etchings. Martin lewis etchings for sale. Lewis was an australian who eventually came to america, worked in illustration at first, then shifted to etchings and would up his career as an art instructor.
At the age of fifteen he left home and supported himself by taking part time jobs in both new south wales and new zealand. This is a fine impression printed on cream wove paper. Signed in the plate, lower right.
The margins are wide and the condition is good.
Etching and drypoint, circa 1915, mccarron 6, edition listed as 1 recorded impression. Eschewing the trend for abstraction, he remained a devoted realist who relied on his own acute observation read more » Celebrating the work of martin lewis, arguably america’s most important printmaker of the first half of the twentieth century, this exhibition includes over fifty intaglios and lithographs of urban and rural american life. He ended up in sydney where he studied and did illustrations for a local newspaper.