About the Artwork
The Road to Otome-toge
between 1920 and 1922
Martin Lewis
1881-1962
American
Unknown
Blue pen and ink and graphite pencil on wove paper
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 11 1/4 inches (24.8 × 28.6 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Patricia Lewis and Family
1996.229.12
© Ruth Lewis, granddaughter of the artist Martin Lewis
Markings
Inscribed, in blue ink by ML, lower left: The road to Otome toge Inscribed, extensive color notations throughout the drawing, in sky: warm | purple clouds | edges of crimson | crimson clouds Inscribed, on the mountain below snow line: purple blue gray | gray clouds | deep blue | patches of cultivation | dimly seen - Inscribed, on bank in foreground from left to right: green pine brush | grass plumes | grass | road edged with | grass plumes | showing silver & green | grasses green gray Inscribed, vertically, upper left edge: 20. LDL Inscribed, verso: 21, L.D.L. Inscribed, inside collection stamp, verso: LDL | 820
Stamp, in black, verso: [circular collection stamp of Lucile Deming Lewis]
Provenance
1996-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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© Ruth Lewis, granddaughter of the artist Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis, The Road to Otome-toge, between 1920 and 1922, blue pen and ink and graphite pencil on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Patricia Lewis and Family, 1996.229.12.
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