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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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Keywords and Quick Facts for Tom E Lewis


   Keywords 
Art MethodArt MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Regionalism, Local Scene
  • Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • California Before 1940
Art Association
  • California Art Club-
  • California Watercolor Society
  • Laguna Beach Art Association
  • San Francisco Art Association-
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Self Taught, Autodidact
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Art Association
  • California Watercolor Society-
  • San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York

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