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Untitled (12 unbound pages of drawings and poems for children)
c.1927/1937
Martin Lewis
1881-1962
American
Unknown
Pen, black ink, graphite pencil on cream wove paper
Page (Folded): 10 1/2 × 7 5/8 inches (26.7 × 19.4 cm) Page (Unfolded): 10 1/2 × 14 3/4 inches (26.7 × 37.5 cm)
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Gift of Mr. Robert M. Katzman and Mrs. Lisa Katzman in honor of Sidney and Betty Katzman and their children, Ellen and Laura, from the collection assembled by Patricia Lewis
1999.1736.11
© Ruth Lewis, granddaughter of the artist Martin Lewis
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In black ink, center right of sheet: Roads tell you the way to go home; / But Big People don't seem to know / That you have to listen quite hard, / To hear which way you must go - / For roads can't talk very loud, / And you mustn't make too much noise, / If you do, they won't tell you the things / They tell to us little boys. / Whenever I go for a walk, / I can hear hear (sic) little sounds in the trees, / The leaves are all talking at once; / But Big People think it's the breeze. / Big People don't hear very well, / Or else they don't listen as they / Ought to - for if they did, / They'd hear what all things have to say.
Watermark: J WHATMA(N)
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© Ruth Lewis, granddaughter of the artist Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis, Untitled (12 unbound pages of drawings and poems for children), c.1927/1937, pen, black ink, graphite pencil on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. Robert M. Katzman and Mrs. Lisa Katzman in honor of Sidney and Betty Katzman and their children, Ellen and Laura, from the collection assembled by Patricia Lewis, 1999.1736.11.
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