The Three Beggars

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The Three Beggars
The Three Beggars
Artist/Maker (British, born Canada, 1882 - 1957)
Date1942
MediumPen and ink with watercolor on paper
DimensionsComposition: 14 1/4 × 10 3/4 in. (36.2 × 27.3 cm) Frame: 22 × 18 × 1 in. (55.9 × 45.7 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number1993.17
Not on view

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1992
London. Imperial War Museum. "Wyndham Lewis: Art and War," June 25 - October 11, 1992 (cat. no. 72, illus., plate 72)

Provenance 1950 - 1993: Private collection of Omar S. Pound, by purchase from the artist
1993: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Omar S. Pound
Published References Edwards, Paul, WYNDHAM LEWIS: ART AND WAR (London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd. in association with The Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust, 1992), 139, illus. plate 72.

Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Friends of Art Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 6, April 1994, "1993 Acquisitions"
Signature Signed and dated in ink at lower right: Wyndham Lewis 1942
Photograph by John Bentham.
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1918
Medium: Charcoal, pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache wash on paper
Object number: 1995.73
Children playing
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1945
Medium: India ink and watercolor with traces of grey chalk on paper
Object number: 1994.128
Untitled [drawing of a girl with a scarf]
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1925
Medium: India ink and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1994.129
© Estate of the artist or assignee.
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1920
Medium: Gouache, ink, and watercolor with collage on paper
Object number: 1994.130
Untitled (Design on the back of an envelope)
Wyndham Lewis
Date: early 20th century
Medium: India ink and watercolor on envelope
Object number: 1994.127
Study for oil of Ezra Pound (recto and verso)
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1938
Medium: Double-sided drawing with transparent watercolor wash over graphite and charcoal (recto) and graphite (verso) on paper
Object number: 2004.3a-b
Lion and Martyrs
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1947
Medium: Black and colored chalk on paper
Object number: 1993.18
with frame. Photograph by John Bentham.
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1938
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1991.126
© Nate Lewis, courtesy of the artist and Fridman Gallery.
Nate Lewis
Date: 2021
Medium: Hand sculpted inkjet print, ink, frottage, graphite, colored pencil sticks
Object number: 2021.10
Gent
David Lewis
Date: 1989
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1992.32
Untitled
David Lewis
Date: August 15, 1989
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1992.33
Good Friday, Guanajuato
Lewis Rubenstein
Date: 20th century
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1994.57