NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979) Two Barns. Watercolor on cream wove paper, 1937. 450x570 mm; 17 3/4x22 1/4 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Provenance: private collection, New Jersey; private collection, North Carolina, acquired at Swann Galleries, February 14, 2013. Illustrated: Ruth Fine. The Art of Norman Lewis fig. 16, p. 31. In her retrospective catalogue essay The Spiritual in the Material, Ruth Fine wrote that Two Barns was one of the earliest dated watercolors by Norman Lewis - "one of several in this medium of urban and country scenes completed during the late 1930/early 1940s." Fine p. 31.
NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979) Two Barns. Watercolor on cream wove paper, 1937. 450x570 mm; 17 3/4x22 1/4 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Provenance: private collection, New Jersey; private collection, North Carolina, acquired at Swann Galleries, February 14, 2013. Illustrated: Ruth Fine. The Art of Norman Lewis fig. 16, p. 31. In her retrospective catalogue essay The Spiritual in the Material, Ruth Fine wrote that Two Barns was one of the earliest dated watercolors by Norman Lewis - "one of several in this medium of urban and country scenes completed during the late 1930/early 1940s." Fine p. 31.
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