Study for Shadow Magic, ca. 1939

  • Martin Lewis, American, 1881-1962

Black crayon and possibly white colored pencil on brown wove paper

  • Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 7/8 inches (36.2 × 25.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert and Lisa Katzman

2001.19

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in pencil, on the sheet of oriental paper that reinforces the entire sheet, lower right, verso: Martin Lewis | P.L.

Inscribed, in black crayon, lower center: [E]uclid alone has looked on beauty bare

2001-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Martin Lewis, Study for Shadow Magic, ca. 1939, black crayon and possibly white colored pencil on brown wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert and Lisa Katzman, 2001.19.