Winter Branches #4

1953

Winter Branches #4, 1953. Norman Lewis (American, 1909–1979). Ink on paper; sheet: 66 x 101.6 cm (26 x 40 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Estate of Norman W. Lewis 2017.2 © Estate of Norman W. Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY Lewis’s Winter Branches #4 belongs to a series of drawings based upon black-and-white photographs of barren trees against the cloudless sky. The Harlem-based artist’s interest in landscape was further fueled by his study of Chinese painting, whose influences are readily seen in the spare calligraphic lines and brushwork characterizing this series.