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
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
Department
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Details
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.
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