Chance Meeting
1940 · Drypoint
plate: 8 7/8 × 7 1/2" (22.6 × 19 cm); sheet: 15 3/8 × 10 11/16" (39 × 27.1 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Martin Lewis
Australian-American, 1881
Victoria, Australia
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6
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29
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49
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4
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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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American Prints: 1913�1963
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974–1975
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Manhattan Observed
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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American Prints of the 20th Century
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Martin Lewis was an American printmaker and painter active in the early twentieth century, working primarily in etching and lithography. Based in New York, he developed a distinctive urban realist vocabulary centered on city streets, tenement life, and industrial scenes rendered with precise linear technique. His prints captured the texture and movement of metropolitan experience during the interwar period. Lewis worked across multiple print mediums with sustained attention to atmospheric effect and social observation.
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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