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Artist/Maker
Wyndham Lewis
(British, born Canada, 1882 - 1957)
Date1938
MediumDouble-sided drawing with transparent watercolor wash over graphite and charcoal (recto) and graphite (verso) on paper
DimensionsComposition: 14 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (36.8 × 52.1 cm)
Frame: 25 1/4 × 31 1/8 × 1 1/4 in. (64.1 × 79.1 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number2004.3a-b
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a study for a painting now in the collection of the Tate in London, England.
"In 1914 Wyndham Lewis and the American poet and critic Ezra Pound together promoted Vorticism, an avant-garde movement celebrating the machine age and the artist as a mystic, inventor, and organiser of forms. Both men were controversial writers. Their relationship was at times difficult: in the 1920s Lewis had been very critical of Pound's poetry. But Lewis set aside their differences to produce this tribute to his friend. It is one of a series of portraits Lewis began in 1938, which also included T.S. Eliot and Stephen Spender. The composition is dominated by the diagonal lines of Pound's reclining body and the newspapers, which are offset by the strong verticals on the left." (SOURCE: Tate Gallery label, August 2004, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewis-ezra-pound-n05042)
Additional Details
Exhibition History
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., 29);
1992
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Rebels & Romantics: Some British Moderns and Their Work," June 6 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 28.). [exhibited as "Study for Oil Portrait of Ezra Pound"].
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., 29);
1992
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Rebels & Romantics: Some British Moderns and Their Work," June 6 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 28.). [exhibited as "Study for Oil Portrait of Ezra Pound"].
Provenance
2004: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Omar S. Pound;
c. 1949 - 2004: Omar S. Pound, by purchase from the artist, London, England.
c. 1949 - 2004: Omar S. Pound, by purchase from the artist, London, England.
Published References
A CENTURY OF CURIOSITIES: THE STORY OF THE HAMILTON COLLEGE COLLECTION (exh. cat., Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, September 29- December 30, 2005, unnumbered cat.).
David Lewis, ed., REBELS & ROMANTICS: SOME BRITISH MODERNS AND THEIR WORK (exh. cat. Clinton, NY, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 1992), [checklist] 64.
David Lewis, ed., REBELS & ROMANTICS: SOME BRITISH MODERNS AND THEIR WORK (exh. cat. Clinton, NY, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 1992), [checklist] 64.
Signature
Signed and dated "Wyndham Lewis 1938" at lower left corner in ink.
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