The Return
Maker
Martin Lewis
(American, born in Australia, 1881 - 1962)
Date1925
MediumDrypoint on wove paper
DimensionsPlate: 7-7/8 x 9-15/16 in. (20 x 25.2 cm)
Sheet: 12-3/16 x 16 in. (31 x 40.6 cm)
Sheet: 12-3/16 x 16 in. (31 x 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Brenda F. and Joseph V. Smith
Object number2007.68
Object TypePrints
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Martin Lewis, a native of Australia, left home as a young man to pursue an artistic career and eventually settled in New York. Dissatisfied with his job as a commercial illustrator, he departed in 1920 for a two-year hiking and sketching trip through Japan. Lewis’s travels and exposure to ukiyo-e art had a lasting influence on his style; the asymmetries and simplifications of Japanese art appear in his depictions of Japanese subjects as well as his better-known New York City prints.
