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Norman Wilfred Lewis (July 23, 1909 – August 27, 1979) was an American painter, scholar, and teacher.[1]

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  1. 69 relations: Abstract expressionism, Ad Reinhardt, Andrianna Campbell-LaFleur, Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students League of New York, Augusta Savage, Beauford Delaney, Bebop, Benny Andrews, Blanton Museum of Art, Caribbean, Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles Alston, Charles W. White, Chick Webb, Cinque Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Count Basie, Cubism, David Driskell, David Smith (sculptor), Demographics of Bermuda, Dore Ashton, Eldzier Cortor, Elizabeth Catlett, Emma Amos (painter), Ernest Crichlow, Freight transport, Guggenheim Fellowship, Hale Woodruff, Harlem, Harlem Artists Guild, Harlem Community Art Center, High Museum of Art, Irving Sandler, Jackson Pollock, Jacob Lawrence, John Reed Clubs, John Woodrow Wilson, Joseph Delaney (artist), List of Federal Art Project artists, Manhattan, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Endowment for the Arts, National Gallery of Art, New York Herald Tribune, ... Expand index (19 more) »

  2. American people of Bermudian descent

Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the immediate aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depression and Mexican muralists.

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Ad Reinhardt

Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter active in New York for more than three decades. Norman Lewis (artist) and ad Reinhardt are federal Art Project artists.

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Andrianna Campbell-LaFleur

Andrianna Campbell-Lafleur is a globally recognized historian, art critic, and curator specializing in modern and contemporary art.

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Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.

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Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League of New York is an art school in the American Fine Arts Society in Manhattan, New York City.

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Augusta Savage

Augusta Savage (born Augusta Christine Fells; February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Norman Lewis (artist) and Augusta Savage are federal Art Project artists.

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Beauford Delaney

Beauford Delaney (December 30, 1901 – March 26, 1979) was an American modernist painter. Norman Lewis (artist) and Beauford Delaney are 20th-century African-American painters, artists from Manhattan and painters from New York City.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States.

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Benny Andrews

Benny Andrews (November 13, 1930 – November 10, 2006) was an African-American artist, activist and educator. Norman Lewis (artist) and Benny Andrews are 20th-century African-American painters.

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Blanton Museum of Art

The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Carnegie International

The Carnegie International is a North American exhibition of contemporary art from around the globe.

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Carnegie Museum of Art

The Carnegie Museum of Art is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Charles Alston

Charles Henry Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Norman Lewis (artist) and Charles Alston are 20th-century African-American painters, abstract expressionist artists, federal Art Project artists and painters from New York City.

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Charles W. White

Charles Wilbert White, Jr. (April 2, 1918 – October 3, 1979) was an American artist known for his chronicling of African American related subjects in paintings, drawings, lithographs, and murals. Norman Lewis (artist) and Charles W. White are 20th-century African-American painters.

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Chick Webb

William Henry "Chick" Webb (February 10, 1905 – June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer and band leader.

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The Cinque Gallery (1969–2004) was co-founded by artists Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, and Norman Lewis as an outgrowth of the Black power movement to "provide a place where the works of unknown, and neglected artists of talent …" — primarily Black artists — "would not only be shown but nurtured and developed".

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Columbus College of Art and Design

Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD) is a private art school in Columbus, Ohio.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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Cubism

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.

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David Driskell

David C. Driskell (June 7, 1931 – April 1, 2020) was an American artist, scholar and curator recognized for his work in establishing African-American Art as a distinct field of study.

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David Smith (sculptor)

Roland David Smith (March 9, 1906 – May 23, 1965) was an influential and innovative American abstract expressionist sculptor and painter, widely known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures. Norman Lewis (artist) and David Smith (sculptor) are abstract expressionist artists.

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Demographics of Bermuda

This is a demography of the population of Bermuda including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population, including changes in the demographic make-up of Bermuda over the centuries of its permanent settlement.

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Dore Ashton

Dore Ashton (May 21, 1928 – January 30, 2017) was a writer, professor and critic on modern and contemporary art.

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Eldzier Cortor

Eldzier Cortor (January 10, 1916 – November 26, 2015) was an African-American artist and printmaker. Norman Lewis (artist) and Eldzier Cortor are 20th-century African-American painters and federal Art Project artists.

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Elizabeth Catlett

Elizabeth Catlett, born as Alice Elizabeth Catlett, also known as Elizabeth Catlett Mora (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012) was an American and Mexican sculptor and graphic artist best known for her depictions of the Black-American experience in the 20th century, which often focused on the female experience.

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Emma Amos (painter)

Emma Amos (16 March 1937 – 20 May 2020) was a postmodern African-American painter and printmaker. Norman Lewis (artist) and Emma Amos (painter) are 20th-century African-American painters.

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Ernest Crichlow

Ernest Crichlow (June 19, 1914 – November 10, 2005) was an American social realist artist known for his narrative paintings and illustrations from the Depression-era, which focused on social injustice and the realities faced by African Americans. Norman Lewis (artist) and Ernest Crichlow are 20th-century African-American painters.

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Freight transport

Freight transport, also referred as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim.

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Hale Woodruff

Hale Aspacio Woodruff (August 26, 1900 – September 6, 1980) was an American artist known for his murals, paintings, and prints.

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Harlem

Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan in New York City.

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Harlem Artists Guild

The Harlem Artists Guild (1935–41) was an African-American organization founded by artists including Augusta Savage, Charles Alston, Elba Lightfoot, Louise E. Jefferson and bibliophile Arthur Schomburg with the aims of encouraging young talent, providing a forum for the discussion of the visual arts in the community, fostering understanding between artists and the public through education towards an appreciation of art, focusing on issues of general concern to Black artists such as racism, poverty and unemployment, and cooperating with agencies to improve conditions and raise standards of living and achievement among African-American artists.

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The Harlem Community Art Center was a Federal Art Project community art center that operated from 1937 to 1942.

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High Museum of Art

The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States.

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Irving Sandler

Irving Sandler (July 22, 1925 – June 2, 2018) was an American art critic, art historian, and educator.

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Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter. Norman Lewis (artist) and Jackson Pollock are abstract expressionist artists, federal Art Project artists and painters from New York City.

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Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Armstead Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Norman Lewis (artist) and Jacob Lawrence are 20th-century African-American painters, art Students League of New York faculty and federal Art Project artists.

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John Reed Clubs

The John Reed Clubs (1929–1935), often referred to as John Reed Club (JRC), were an American federation of local organizations targeted towards Marxist writers, artists, and intellectuals, named after the American journalist and activist John Reed.

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John Woodrow Wilson

John Woodrow Wilson (1922–2015) was an American lithographer, sculptor, painter, muralist, and art teacher whose art was driven by the political climate of his time. Norman Lewis (artist) and John Woodrow Wilson are 20th-century African-American painters.

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Joseph Delaney (artist)

Joseph Delaney (1904November 21, 1991) was a black American artist who became a part of the New York art scene at the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Norman Lewis (artist) and Joseph Delaney (artist) are 20th-century African-American painters.

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List of Federal Art Project artists

The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. Norman Lewis (artist) and List of Federal Art Project artists are federal Art Project artists.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko (IPA:, Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903February 25, 1970), was an American abstract painter. Norman Lewis (artist) and Mark Rothko are abstract expressionist artists and federal Art Project artists.

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Mark Tobey

Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976) was an American painter. Norman Lewis (artist) and Mark Tobey are abstract expressionist artists and federal Art Project artists.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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Painting

Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").

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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.

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Richard Lippold

Richard Lippold (May 3, 1915 – August 22, 2002) was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium.

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Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.

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Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an American artist, author, and songwriter. Norman Lewis (artist) and Romare Bearden are American modern painters and painters from New York City.

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Scholar

A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline.

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Selma Burke

Selma Hortense Burke (December 31, 1900 – August 29, 1995) was an American sculptor and a member of the Harlem Renaissance movement. Norman Lewis (artist) and Selma Burke are federal Art Project artists.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Studio Museum in Harlem

The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent.

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Teachers College, Columbia University

Teachers College, Columbia University (TC) is the graduate school of education, health, and psychology of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City.

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The Irascibles

The Irascibles or Irascible 18 were the labels given to a group of American abstract artists who put name to an open letter, written in 1950, to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, rejecting the museum's exhibition American Painting Today - 1950 and boycotting the accompanying competition. Norman Lewis (artist) and the Irascibles are abstract expressionist artists.

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Vincent D. Smith

Vincent DaCosta Smith (December 12, 1929 – December 27, 2003) was an American artist, painter, printmaker and teacher.

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Vivian E. Browne

Vivian E. Browne (April 26, 1929–July 23, 1993) was an American artist.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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133rd Street (Manhattan)

133rd Street is a street in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City.

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306 Group

The 306 Group were a collective of African American artists who worked and socialized together in Harlem, New York City in the 1930s.

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See also

American people of Bermudian descent

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lewis_(artist)

, Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Ralph Ellison, Richard Lippold, Richard Wright (author), Romare Bearden, Scholar, Selma Burke, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Social realism, South America, Studio Museum in Harlem, Teachers College, Columbia University, The Irascibles, Vincent D. Smith, Vivian E. Browne, Works Progress Administration, 133rd Street (Manhattan), 306 Group.