Norman Lewis (artist)
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Norman Wilfred Lewis was an American painter, scholar, and teacher. Lewis, who was African-American and of Bermudian descent, was associated with abstract expressionism, and used representational stra
Self-Portrait (1939)
Jazz Band (1948)
Cinque Gallery
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The Cinque Gallery was an art gallery in New York City co-founded by artists Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, and Norman Lewis as an outgrowth of the Black power movement to "provide a place where the
Norman Lewis (artist)
…paintings was executed on a chimney in South Dennis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod at the summer house of a Harlem couple. In 1969, Lewis founded the Cinque Gallery in New York City, along with Romare Bearden and Ernest Crichlow. During the same year, Lewis protested in front of Metropolitan Museum of Art because…
Exhibition Card, NYC, 1978