The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Winter Branches #4

Winter Branches #4

1953
(American, 1909–1979)
Sheet: 66 x 101.6 cm (26 x 40 in.)
© Estate of Norman W. Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Location: not on view

Description

Lewis’s Winter Branches #4 belongs to a series of drawings based upon black-and-white photographs of barren trees against the cloudless sky. The Harlem-based artist’s interest in landscape was further fueled by his study of Chinese painting, whose influences are readily seen in the spare calligraphic lines and brushwork characterizing this series.
  • Lewis, Norman. Norman Lewis: Looking East. New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2018. Reproduced: P. 41
  • Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022).
    Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 14, 2017-February 5, 2018).
  • {{cite web|title=Winter Branches #4|url=false|author=Norman Lewis|year=1953|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.2