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The Orator, Madison Square

Martin LewisWW-1916-174224
1916·Etching, sand-ground, and roulette·Sheet: 14 1/4 × 17 in. (36.2 × 43.2 cm) Plate: 11 × 12 3/4 in. (27.9 × 32.4 cm)

<p>Martin Lewis, <em>The Orator, Madison Square</em>, 1916. Etching, sand-ground, and roulette, sheet: 14 1/4 × 17 in. (36.2 × 43.2 cm) Plate: 11 × 12 3/4 in. (27.9 × 32.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 2016.151. Estate of Martin Lewis</p>

Catalogue

Year
1916
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 17 in. (36.2 × 43.2 cm) Plate: 11 × 12 3/4 in. (27.9 × 32.4 cm)

Artist

Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis

Drawing

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.

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Year
1916
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 17 in. (36.2 × 43.2 cm) Plate: 11 × 12 3/4 in. (27.9 × 32.4 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1916-174224

Source

Source
whitney
Status
verified

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