Togetherness
- Date
- 1973
- Material
- Etching
- printed in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- plate: 12 3/4 × 15 11/16 in. (32.4 × 39.8 cm)
sheet: 16 13/16 × 19 11/16 in. (42.7 × 50 cm)
framed: 23 1/8 × 29 1/8 × 2 in. (58.7 × 74 × 5.1 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
- 164:2017
NOTES
Overlapping shapes, suggestive of human forms, encircle and transverse the gray ground in Togetherness. 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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