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NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Erosion
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Watercolor on cream wove paper, 1938. 356x483 mm; 14x19 inches. Signed, titled and dated “Nov.
4 - 1938” in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: private collection, Missouri.
Norman Lewis made this watercolor while he and Rex Goreleigh were teaching at the North
Carolina A&T State University and Bennett College in Greensboro. The WPA sent out artists to
schools without art teachers, and Goreleigh and Lewis had volunteered. Lewis was unable to tolerate
the segregation of North Carolina for long, and soon returned to NewYork - “it upset me because
I’d never been south in such intimate circumstances.” Bearden/Henderson pp. 317-18.
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