The Print Club of Rochester

5″ x 7″ image on 6.5″ x 8.75″ paper
Line engraving on copper
Edition size: Unknown

Allen Lewis (1873 – 1957) was born in Mobile, Alabama. He studied in Paris at the Academie Colarossi and in 1900, his etchings were accepted into the Paris Salon. Lewis returned to New York in 1902, where he continued his printmaking and showed his work at gallery 291, owned by Alfred Steiglitz. Lewis was elected a member of the National Academy in 1935 and also held membership in the Chicago Society of Etchers and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He was a prolific book illustrator and printmaker. Allen Lewis’s work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale and Harvard University Libraries and the Prague.