Ha’nted
- Date
- 1932
- Material
- Drypoint with sandpaper ground
- made in
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- plate: 13 1/4 x 9 in. (33.7 x 22.9 cm)
sheet: 17 1/4 x 12 7/8 in. (43.8 x 32.7 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Mary Randolph Ballinger
- Rights
- © Martin Lewis
- Object Number
- 64:2006
NOTES
In the early 1930s Martin Lewis moved out of New York City due to the economic strains of the Great Depression and settled into the small town of Sandy Hook, Connecticut. There he created Ha'nted which shows two men with a kerosene lamp walking along a country road on a clear winter night. The title refers to the "haunting" effect of the exaggerated shadow cast by the lamp. Magnified on the side of a barn, it looms menacingly over the walking men.
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