Art in a Broader Context
Norman Lewis: A Retrospective
In late 1975 Dr Milton Brown, the Chair of Art History at CUNY Graduate Center (where I was a newly enrolled student), invited me to take over a planned exhibition of paintings by Norman Lewis, a then-forgotten, now revered New York artist. Over the following months I spent time with Norman at his Grand Street studio, talking about art, life, and politics. I wrote a mostly biographical essay and, along with Norman and Dr Brown, selected the paintings. Following the show I was hired as an exhibition assistant at the gallery, The Graduate Center Mall Gallery, and worked there for several years.
Read the catalogue (PDF, 11 pages)Essay by Thomas Lawson · Foreword by Milton W. Brown
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