Which Came First...
...The Nighthawk or the egg?
Moonlight Etchings of the Forgotten Artist who Taught Edward Hopper
Martin Lewis died in obscurity in 1962; a retired art teacher who had found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten after the Great Depression took away the demand for his craft, leaving Lewis to spend his last three decades teaching other people how to etch. History chose Edward
(, Fri 20 Dec 2019, 22:32, Reply)
Some gorgeous pieces in there,
but some that poorly portray how light and shadow would work in the given circumstances...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Fri 20 Dec 2019, 23:26,
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Been to an exhibition of Lewis' work a few years back.
Rather like the Japanese prints as they show a lost period before the Second War, but then again the same can be said of the American prints.
(, Sat 21 Dec 2019, 11:15, Reply)