biographie de Allen LEWIS (1873-1957)

Birth place: Mobile, AL

Addresses: Brooklyn, NY, 1934; Basking Ridge, NJ, 1953

Profession: Etcher, engraver, illustrator, designer, writer, lecturer, teacher

Studied: Buffalo ASL; …cole des Beaux-Arts, Pasig; Bridgman; Gérôme, Paris

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1899 (as Arthur Allen Lewis); PAFA Ann., 1903; Buffalo SE, 1915 (prize); AIC, 1915 (prize); NAD, 1928 (prize); St. Louis Expo, 1903 (med.); Sesqui-Centenn. Expo, Phila., 1926; Chicago SE, 1915 (prize); Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915 (gold); Brooklyn SE, 1917 (prize); NAC, 1928 (prize); 50 Books of the Year, 1933; 50 Prints of the Year, 1926, 1929, 1932; 100 Prints of the Year, 1936.

Member: SAE; Am. Soc. Typophiles; NA, 1935; Chicago SE; AI Graphic Arts; Stowaways; Calif. PM; AFA.

Work: Peabody Mus., Salem, MA; NYPL; MMA; BM; CMA; Detroit Inst. Art; British Mus., London; Oakland Art Gal.; LOC; Newark Pub. Lib.; Columbia Univ.; AIC; Herron AI; Univ. Rochester; Univ. California; Michigan City (IN) Pub. Lib.; Hotchkiss Sch., CT; Yale Univ.; Princeton Univ.; Bibliothèque Nat., Paris; Univ. Nebraska; Providence Lib.

Comments: Known primarily as Allen Lewis. Auth./illustr.: Bookplate Annual. Illustr.: Short Stories, by Walt Whitman; Journeys to Bagdad, by Charles Brooks; Paul Bunyon; Jesus Christ in Flanders; by HonorÈ de Balzac; Hepatica Hawks, by Rachel Fieldillus; nat. magazines. Lectures: woodcuts, etchings & composition.

Sources: WW53; WW47; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 365; Brewington, 233; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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