Lewis, Norman (Untitled)

"Untitled" by Norman Lewis 21 x 18 inches (Image size) 27.5 x 24.5 inches (Framed) , pen and ink drawing on paper, 1950 --framed   New York-born Lewis began his career during the 1930s as a social realist. He shifted from an overtly figural style, depicting bread lines, evictions, and police brutality, to non-objective abstraction in the 1950s, but remained active and consciously aware of social inequities, particularly those faced by African Americans.