Stanley Lewis in his studio. Photo by Kamal (Copyright)

CV of Stanley Lewis, sculptor and printmaker

 Born March 28th 1930 in Montreal

 Studies
 
1949-53: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, School of Art and Design, with Dr. Arthur Lismer
  
1953-55: Istituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

1956-59: Atelier of Maestro V. Gambacciani, Florence, Italy.

 1963-65: Ein Hod Artists' Colony, Israel
 
Solo Exhibitions
   
1950: YMCA Montreal
Stone lithography and drawings
  
1952: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts     
Sculpture

 1953: Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal
Stone lithography from Mexican period
 
1955: Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal
 Drawings from Mexican period
      
1959: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
 Lifesize marble copy of Michelangelo’s Tondo Pitti, carved in Florence

1960: Gallery Here and Now, Toronto
Sculpture
 
1960: Galerie Dresdnere, Montreal
Sculpture
  
1961: Galerie Libre, Montreal
First black and white stone-cut prints

1962: Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal
 Sculpture and stone-cut prints
 
1963: Le Centre d’Art du Mont-Royal, Montreal
Sculpture and stone-cut prints
 
1964: Galerie Libre, Montreal
Sculpture and stone-cut prints (first exhibition of multi-colour stone-cut prints produced
in Israel)
   
1965:  Israel Art Auction Gallery, Tel Aviv
Stone-cut prints under the patronage of Canadian Embassy in Israel
   
1965: The Art Den, Montreal.
Stone-cut prints.
    
1966: Galerie Moos, Montreal
Sculpture

1967: Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal
Stone-cut prints
   
1968: L’Auberge du Vieux St-Gabriel, Montreal
Stone-cut prints: “Man and Air Pollution”

1969: Saidye Brofman Centre, Montreal
Sculpture
 
1971: National Gallery of Ottawa, Ottawa
Stone-cut prints and woodcut prints
 
1971:  Palais des Arts Terre des Hommes, Montreal
 Stone-cut prints “Celestial Light.”
   
1971: Galerie Bienvenue, Montreal
Sculpture
 
1974: Le Centre d’Art du Mont-Royal, Montreal
 Stone-cut prints. “The Age of Violence.”
      
1974: Cummings House, Montreal
Drawings produced in Israel while observing the Yom Kippur war in situ at the Golan
Heights (Syria)

1975: Atelier J. Lukacs, Montreal
 Sculpture and stone-cut prints
   
1976: Atelier J.Lukacs, Montreal
Sculpture
     
1976: Galerie d’Art Artemus, Montreal
 Retrospective “Drawings 1950-1974”
 
1978: Galerie Libre, Montreal
Lino-cut entitled “Tree Sprit” carved in situ, Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock area.

1982:  Le Centre d’Art, Montreal 
Stone-cut prints

1988:  La Galerie d’Arts Contemporains, Montreal
Sculpture and Coloured Drawings
 
1992:  Westmount Square
In commemoration of Montreal’s 350th anniversary, Sculpture

1997: Place Ville-Maire, Montreal
Multi-media sculpture entitled “The Flood and Rebirth.” 

2022: Riverbrink Art Museum, Niagara-on-the-Lake
The Spirit Within the Form: Stanley Lewis (stonecut prints)


Group Exhibitions
 
1953: Istituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Stone lithography and Sculpture
 
1954: Istituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Stone lithography and Sculpture
   
1958: Galerie del Ariete, Milan, Italy
 Sculpture
 
1959: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Gallery 12
Three years of marble carving created in Florence
 
1963: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Galerie de l’Etable
As founding member of L’Association des Sculpteurs du Quebec
 
1970: Musee Rodin, Paris
 Marble sculpture: “The Adolescent.”
  
1976: Yale University
 (with American artists Frank Stella, Robert Motherwell….)
      
1992: Musee du Quebec
(La Sculpture au Quebec 1946-1961)

 
Awards and Distinctions
 
1949: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design
Scholarship in painting
 
1950: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design
Scholarship in sculpture and graphics
    
1952- 1954- Istituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico   
Postgraduate scholarships to study stone sculpture and stone lithography

1956-1958- Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation
Three consecutive scholarships to study stone sculpture in Florence
 
1959: Musee du Quebec, Quebec
Concours artistique. Purchase prize: sculpture for permanent collection

1960: Musee du Quebec, Quebec
 National Art and Photography Exhibition.
 Prize for sculpture
 
1962: Musee du Quebec, Quebec         
National Art and Photography Exhibition.
Prize for stone-cut

 1963: Canadian Jewish Congress
Travel grant to Israel to create stone-cuts illustration “The Ten Commandments” using Jerusalem stone slabs. 
    
1966: Creates bronze of Samuel Bronfman.
   
1974: Canadian Jewish Congress.
 Travel grant to Israel (war artist documenting the Yom Kipper War)

1980s: Received recognition for advancing techniques – Institute of  Leonardo da Vinci, Florence.

Entry in Who’s Who in American Jewry

Entry in Art and Antiques
 
500 prints bought for Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec
 
Posthumously
      
2006: Homage to Stanley Lewis. Back to Roots. Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal
 
2009: Sherbrooke Museum

2009: Kitchener Museum