Untitled
- Date
- 1949
- Material
- Graphite
- probably made in
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Drawings & watercolors
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 24 × 18 7/8 in. (61 × 47.9 cm)
- Credit Line
- The Thelma and Bert Ollie Memorial Collection, Gift of Ronald and Monique Ollie
- Rights
- © The Estate of Norman W. Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
- Object Number
- 165:2017
NOTES
Untitled depicts a series of vertical lines drawn on paper. Norman Lewis, a friend of Romare Bearden, was primarily an abstract artist. Equally interested in the question of art’s place in the civil rights movement, Lewis and Bearden, along with a few others, founded the artists’ group, Spiral (1963–65). Though short-lived, the collective was an incubator for collaboration. In 1969, the pair, along with Ernest Crichlow (1914–2009), opened Cinque Gallery in New York, a space that exhibited work by African American artists and hosted educational programs.
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