This dramatic and animated drawing is an excellent example of Norman Lewis’ important works
on paper in the early 1950s. His inventive calligraphy of small dancing figures inhabit his paintings
and works on paper for the next decade. His works on paper from this seminal abstract period
incorporate both these newer “ritual” figures with the dry brush atmospheric technique he favored
in the early 1950s, melding them into a complex promenade composition.
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