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Subway Steps

Maker Martin Lewis (American, 1881 - 1962)

Collections

American Print Selections

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.

Status

Not on view

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.

Object number91.284.63