Subway Steps
Maker
Martin Lewis
(American, 1881 - 1962)
Collections
ClassificationsPRINTS
Date1931
Mediumetching printed on white wove paper
Dimensions13 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (34.6 x 21 cm.)
SignedSigned in lower left of recto in plate: Martin Lewis
InscribedSigned in lower left of recto in plate: Martin Lewis
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Mrs. Homer D. Crotty.
Label TextMartin Lewis's prints are characterized by dramatic juxtapositions of light and dark. Here, passengers emerge from the subterranean gloom of the Thirty-Fourth Street subway station on Seventh Avenue into bright sunlight. In this etching, as in much of his work, Lewis treats human figures as compositional elements rather than using them to create narrative.Status
Not on viewObject number91.284.63
