Composition in Brown

Norman LewisWW-1953-112972

1953·Watercolor and brush and black ink, with pen and brown and black ink, red chalk, and brown pastel, on cream wove paper·48.2 × 61 cm (19 × 24 1/16 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1953
Medium: Watercolor and brush and black ink, with pen and brown and black ink, red chalk, and brown pastel, on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 48.2 × 61 cm (19 × 24 1/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Norman Lewis

Artist

Norman Lewis

Painting

Born in 1909 in Harlem, New York, Norman Lewis tirelessly dedicated his life to his art and his community. Alongside the behemoths of Abstract Expressionism, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Barnett Newman, Lewis stands as a critical member of this seminal group, and was indeed the only African-American artist present at the historic 1950 symposium at Studio 35 in New York, where the leading artists of the day coined their eponymous term.

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