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Artist/Maker Wyndham Lewis (British, born Canada, 1882 - 1957)

Date1938

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsComposition: 19 1/2 × 15 5/8 in. (49.5 × 39.7 cm) Frame: 26 1/4 × 22 1/4 × 2 in. (66.7 × 56.5 × 5.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951

Object number1991.126

Not on view

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Exhibition History 2010
Madrid, Spain. Fundación Juan Marc. "Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)," February 5 - May 16, 2020 (no cat).

2006
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Selections from the Permanent Collection," January 16 - December 30, 2006 (no cat.);

2005
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Hamilton Collects: A Century of Curiosities: The Story of the Hamilton College Collection", September 29 - December 30, 2005 (unnumbered cat., illus. 10);

1992
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Rebels & Romantics: Some British Moderns and Their Work," June 6 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 21);

1980
Manchester (City of Manchester Art Gallery), "Wyndham Lewis," 1980;

1956
London (Tate Gallery). "Wyndham Lewis," 1956. (cat. no. 147).

Provenance 1991: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Omar S. Pound;
after 1971 - 1991: Omar S. Pound, acquired from the Estate of Agnes Bedford;
? - at least 1971: Agnes Bedford, most likely acquired directly from the artist.

Published References David Lewis, ed., REBELS & ROMANTICS: SOME BRITISH MODERNS AND THEIR WORK (exh. cat. Clinton, NY, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 1992): Rosella Blanding "Percy Wyndham Lewis," 31, [checklist] 63.

Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Friends of Art newsletter, vol. 1, no. 5, April 1993, "Acquisitions"

Signature Signed and dated in ink at lower left: WYNDHAM LEWIS 1938

Inscribed Inscribed in ink on verso at lower left [on canvas]: Best / Roberson [underlined]