About the Artwork
Martoni's Ice Cream Stand
1921 or 1922
Martin Lewis
1881-1962
American
Unknown
Graphite pencil on wove paper
Sheet: 12 × 17 1/8 inches (30.5 × 43.5 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund, Graphic Arts and Photography General Fund
1996.41
© Ruth Lewis, granddaughter of the artist Martin Lewis
Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Martin Lewis | P.L.
Inscribed, right of the cone, on the cone, on the roof, on the awning, and in the roadway: [color notations by Martin Lewis throughout the image] Inscribed, verso, below the LDL stamp: LDL-707.
Stamped [circular], in black, verso, lower left: Lucile Deming Lewis Collection
Provenance
(The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, New York, USA)
1996-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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© Ruth Lewis, granddaughter of the artist Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis, Martoni's Ice Cream Stand, 1921 or 1922, graphite pencil on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund, Graphic Arts and Photography General Fund, 1996.41.
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