Lion and Martyrs

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Lion and Martyrs
Lion and Martyrs
Artist/Maker (British, born Canada, 1882 - 1957)
Date1947
MediumBlack and colored chalk on paper
DimensionsComposition: 12 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (31.8 × 24.4 cm) Frame: 20 7/8 × 17 × 7/8 in. (53 × 43.2 × 2.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number1993.18
Not on view

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1992
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Rebels & Romantics: Some British Moderns and Their Work," June 6 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 25).
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 David Lewis, ed., REBELS & ROMANTICS: SOME BRITISH MODERNS AND THEIR WORK (exh. cat. Clinton, NY, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 1992), [checklist] 63.

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 1947
Children playing
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1945
Medium: India ink and watercolor with traces of grey chalk on paper
Object number: 1994.128
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
The Three Beggars
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1942
Medium: Pen and ink with watercolor on paper
Object number: 1993.17
Photograph by John Bentham.
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1918
Medium: Charcoal, pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache wash on paper
Object number: 1995.73
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
with frame. Photograph by John Bentham.
Wyndham Lewis
Date: 1938
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1991.126
Photo by John Bentham.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Date: 20th century
Medium: Black chalk and graphite on buff paper
Object number: 1994.99a-b
Figure Studies
Arthur B. Davies
Date: unknown
Medium: Colored chalk on paper
Object number: 1987.2
© 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
Photo by John Bentham.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Date: c. 1912
Medium: Graphite and chalk on buff paper
Object number: 1994.98a-b