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Tom E Lewis

Tom E Lewis (1909 - 1979) was active/lived in California.  Tom Lewis is known for Modernist town-landscape and still life painting.

Born in Los Angeles, CA on Feb. 22, 1909. Lewis studied architecture at USC. During the 1930s he had a home at 2260 Midlothian Drive in Pasadena and a studio in Laguna Beach.

A self-taught artist, he worked in oil and watercolor and was partial to the color blue. In 1935 he moved to San Francisco and established a studio on Telegraph Hill. He died there on Aug. 2, 1979.

Member:
California Art Club
San Diego Fine Arts Society
California Water Color Society
Laguna Beach Art Association
Progressive Painters of Southern California (cofounder)
Exhibition:
Los Angeles County Fair, 1931;
San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, 1932 (prize)
Ebell Salon (LA), 1934, 1935 (1st prize)
Santa Cruz Art League, 1934
San Diego Art Guild, 1934 (1st prize)
California Water Color Society, 1934, 1936 (1st prizes)
Los Angles County Museum of Art, 1934, 1935 (1st prizes)
Oakland Art Gallery, 1935 (prize)
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1935
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Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"


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