Chance Meeting

1940-1941

Martin Lewis

Artist, American, born Australia, 1881 - 1962

Society of American Graphic Artists

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Society of American Etchers, Inc.)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.67 × 18.89 cm (10 1/2 × 7 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 39.21 × 27.15 cm (15 7/16 × 10 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.515

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    McCarron 1995, no. 131

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1941; acquired 2015 by the Natioanl Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1981

  • Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1981-1983, pp. 138-139, repro

2020

  • American Modernism, National Gallery of Art, Washington, February 20–March 17, 2020 and June 18, 2021–March 2, 2022.

Bibliography

1995

  • McCarron, Paul. The Prints of Martin Lewis: A Catalogue Raisonné. Bronxville, New York: M. Hausberg, 1995, pp. 222-223, no. 131.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: ML; lower right in graphite: Martin Lewis-

Wikidata ID

Q77008620

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