About the Artwork
Study for Building a Babylon, Tudor City, N.Y.C. (M. 76)
1929
Martin Lewis
1881-1962
American
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Blue and white conté crayon on brown paper
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 8 inches (32.4 × 20.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Betty Katzman, and Ellen, Laura, and Robert Katzman in memory of their sister-in-law and aunt Doris Hyman Burton
1996.5
Non-commercial all standard museum
Markings
Signed, in blue pencil, lower center: Martin Lewis
Inscribed, in blue pencil, lower left: To Eugene A. Noble - | with best regards - Oct / 29 [followed by the artists signature] Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: (PDG) 12740
Provenance
possibly Eugene A. Noble.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, Study for Building a Babylon, Tudor City, N.Y.C. (M. 76), 1929, blue and white conté crayon on brown paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Betty Katzman, and Ellen, Laura, and Robert Katzman, 1996.5.
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