Stanley Lewis and the Pink Lady. Photo by Kamal (Copyright)
Stanley Lewis
Stanley Lewis was born in Montreal on the 28th of March 1930, and died in Montreal on the 14th of August 2006. He lived in Montreal always close to Mount Royal and the last years of his life he spent on the Main. He studied under Dr. Arthur Lismer in Montreal. He went on to study at the Istituto Allende in Mexico, and then in Florence under Vittorio Gambacciani. He rounded off his apprenticeship with the Inuit in Northern Canada, which permitted him to develop a particular technique of engraving on stone. He also travelled to China to learn about its culture.
The 56 years of Mr Lewis’ career left us with a rich legacy of sculptures and engravings. Amongst the sculptures that were dearest to him we find the two Pink Ladies, one sculpted when he was young while the other at a mature age. His prolific production of engravings is first noticed with the Ten Commandments he created in Israel in 1965. He participated in exhibitions both on the international level and the national level - in Paris, Florence, Israel, New York, and Mexico; the National Gallery of Canada, at the Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal.
He was constantly haunted by mortality and often quoted the verse from the scriptures: “from dust to dust.” But then he would add a dash of hope: “Man is mortal, but art is eternal”.
Stanley in his studio
The ongoing search for Stanley's artworks . . .
The friends of Stanley Lewis are always looking for news about his artworks. If you are a gallery, private collector, school or museum, please contact us and we will make sure that this information is catalogued in Stanley's online archive. We do not buy, nor do we sell any art works, we are not agents, just his friends, and our soul aim is to make sure Stanley's legacy is kept alive.
The archive is only a segment of the work we possess. We intend to digitize most of the archive, which includes film, super8, 16mm, audio, press clippings, photos, slides, personal letters, texts, and poetic writings.
The ongoing search for Stanley's artworks . . .
The friends of Stanley Lewis are always looking for news about his artworks. If you are a gallery, private collector, school or museum, please contact us and we will make sure that this information is catalogued in Stanley's online archive. We do not buy, nor do we sell any art works, we are not agents, just his friends, and our soul aim is to make sure Stanley's legacy is kept alive.
The archive is only a segment of the work we possess. We intend to digitize most of the archive, which includes film, super8, 16mm, audio, press clippings, photos, slides, personal letters, texts, and poetic writings.
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