Study for Building a Babylon, Tudor City, N.Y.C. (M. 76), 1929

  • Martin Lewis, American, 1881-1962

Blue and white conté crayon on brown paper

  • Sheet: 12 3/4 × 8 inches (32.4 × 20.3 cm)

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

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

possibly Eugene A. Noble. 1996-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

© 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.