...Lucy H. Partman African American artist Norman Lewis (1909–79) was known to be a complex conversant in command of many verbal and visual idioms. His art reveals an interest in inter- and intrapersonal interactions. Lewis studied how people conversed, the way individuals operated in Groups...

...Geoffrey Jacques Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 Norman Lewis n one sense, it's too bad that the recent spring-and-summer- union organizer for the CIO in the 1930s, Lewis was distin• long Studio Museum in Harlem exhibition...

...Fo Wilson This essay examines the tensions between dichotomies concerning the color black through the work of the abstract expressionist Norman Lewis and through some of Lewis’s philosophical ambitions that have found a place in the work of the contemporary artist Ellen Gallagher. Seizing...

... Spiral, founded in 1963 by Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and Charles Alston, was a group of black American artists in New York. This interview with Emma Amos addresses her reasons for joining Spiral, her role as the group’s only woman, the effect of her involvement in Spiral on her artwork...

...Jeanne Siegel Spiral, founded in 1963 by Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and Charles Alston, was a group of black American artists in New York. This article, originally published in ARTnews in 1966, explores the attitudes of Spiral’s membership about civil rights, Negro art, the “Negro Image...

...Courtney J. Martin Spiral, founded in 1963 by Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and Charles Alston, was a group of black American artists in New York. This group has been credited with fostering Bearden’s entry into collage, launching a debate around the political function of abstraction and figuration...

.... Journal of Contemporary African Art • Spring/Summer 1995 NORMAN LEWIS The Second Transition 1947—1951 A.F.T.U./Bill Hodges Gallery New York October 20, 1994-January 25,1995 Carl E. Hazlewood Journal of Contemporary African Art • Spring/Summer 1995 NOT LONG AGO, if one insisted...

... generations of black art- and history of photography, but she is equally inter- ists such as Norman Lewis, Al Loving, Howardena ested in relics, ephemera, and leftovers—the hidden Pindell, Jack Whitten, or Barbara Chase-Riboud, who stories in the attic of our relational histories whose remained...

..., which stem from travel, study, and experimentation and generally evade tidy labels. Unlike her older Black peers in Spiral, including Hale Woodruff, Romare Bearden, and Norman Lewis, who were rooted in social realism and turned toward abstraction in the 1950s, Amos started her artistic career...

... in London, she moved to New York and began to make prints at Letterio Calapai's branch of the Paris Atelier 17. Beginning with her time at Calapai's, Amos began to meet more established artists, including Norman Lewis, William King, Richard Florsheim, and Doris Nash, who introduced her to the print...

... Janet Berry Hess n 1963 the African and Native American artist scant art-­historical attention. Although African Richard Mayhew joined Romare Bearden, Emma American artists like Norman Lewis, Bearden, I Amos, and other prominent African American and Mayhew were in the vanguard...

... veterans, people were from the 1930s under the Depression, so their such as Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, idea of economies—and the art world didn’t have much and Bob Blackburn. Then I can name Bill Majors, Richard money in it. People were buying things. Not like today’s Hunt, Emilio...

.... Their flaneur gently and insightfully brings erasure, what I like to call "The minstrel face, flying through a is a man of leisure and access, together a diverse array of artists Norman Lewis Syndrome," named murky sky of organic, cell-like...

..., and the artistic vision and ideological concerns of the Widener. Among the other contributors are sev- Black Arts movement. The works of artists such as eral artists, literary figures, scholars, and curators Ellsworth Ausby, Norman Lewis, Charles Searles, such as Amiri Baraka, Kay Brown...

... about them? Beauford one of the painter's earliest exhibitions. In the social and artistic atmosphere of his times. In Delaney, Norman Lewis, Ed Clark, Elizabeth spring of I960, two paintings by Thompson the essay reprinted by the Mint...

...; his family moved when he was six to Harlem. He learned lithography from Riva Helfond in 1938 at the Harlem Community Art Center, which was funded by the WPA. His colleagues there included Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, |acob Lawrence, and Augusta Savage. Blackburn...

... at Edwards s behest at Cinque Gallery, an important exhibition space for African American art cofounded by Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and Ernest Crichlow.15 Edwards also met artists from Egypt, who would later host him and Cortez when they traveled there in 1980. But perhaps his most important and long...

... addressing socio-political issues, African descent petitioned the Pastor, Yale University; Norman believe, exists the history and focusing...

... win and Amiri Baraka and by the performances of black artists of the time, including Romare Bearden, such artists as the Last Poets, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Richard Mayhew, and Norman Lewis, as well as Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, and Babatunde Ola- myself, my sister, and all my classmates from...

..., where lines frequently move atmosphere-like electronic static envelops the field across planes bisected by semicircles. of the work in small bits of processed paint, pull- Norman Lewis Triptych I (1985) shows relation- ing through a wetter layer to create a sense of an ship to the emergent space...