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Norman Lewis (American, 1909-1979)
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Biografie |
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1909 |
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Born: in New York, NY |
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1933 |
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Began painting at Augusta Savage’s Uptown Art Laboratory, New York, NY |
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1934 |
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Became a member of the famed 306 Group, an organization of artists and writers that met at the studio of Charles Alston |
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1933 - 1935 |
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Studied at Columbia University and at The John Reed Club Art School, New York, NY
Accepted into the Federal Art Program of the Works Progress Administration, (WPA) |
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1935 |
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Founding member of the Harlem Artists Guild |
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1935 - 1937 |
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Taught at P.S.139 and the Harlem community Art Center in New York, NY |
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1952 |
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Received honorable mention in the 10th Annual American Drawing, Virginia Museum, Norfolk, VA |
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1963 |
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Founding member of Spiral, a group of African-American Artsts that included Charles Alston, Romare Bearden and Hale Woodruff |
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1969 |
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Founded the Cinque Gallery in New York, NY along with Bearden and Ernest Crichlow |
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1972 |
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Awarded Mark Rothko Foundation grant and an Individual Artists’ Fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts |
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1975 |
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Awarded a fellowship from the John Solomon Guggenheim Memorial |
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1972 - 1979 |
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Taught at The Art Students League, New York, NY |
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1979 |
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Died: in New York, NY |
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Ausstellungen |
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2009 |
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Norman Lewis: PULSE, A Centennial Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Hidden Gems: Works on Paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY |
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2008 |
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Norman Lewis, Twilight Sounds, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (solo) |
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2004 |
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Norman Lewis: Master Paintings from 1944-1975, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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2002 |
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Norman Lewis: Linear Abstractions, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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2002 |
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Visions of America: A Black Perspective, ACA Galleries, New York, NY |
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1999 |
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Intuitive Markings: Works on Paper, 1945-1975, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Norman Lewis, G.R. N'Namdi, Chicago, IL (solo) |
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1998 |
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Black New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
Norman Lewis: Black Paintings 1946-1977, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; NY; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (solo)
1960s: Paintings & Works on Papers, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY |
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1997 |
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Norman Lewis: Social Realism to Abstraction 1933-48, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Norman Lewis, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ (solo) |
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1994 |
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The Second Transition: 1947-1951 Abstractions, A.F.T.U. Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1993 |
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Norman Lewis Returns, Paintings from the Harlem Renaissance, Cotton Exchange Gallery, Augusta, GA (solo)
Norman Lewis, Berman/Daferner Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1989 |
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Norman Lewis: From the Harlem Renaissance to Abstraction, Kenkeleba, Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1976 |
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Norman Lewis, A Retrospective, Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, NY (solo) |
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1971 |
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Black Artists: Two Generations, The Newark Museum, Newark, NY |
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1964 |
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Willard Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1961 |
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Willard Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1958 |
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Nature in Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1957 |
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Willard Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1954 |
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Willard Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1952 |
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Willard Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1951 |
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Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1949 |
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Willard Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1940 |
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Art of the American Negro, Tanner Galleries, Chicago, IL |
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Literatur |
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1998 |
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Black New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collection. New York, NY: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1998 (catalogue) |
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