Martin Lewis

"Few printmakers of the 1920s and 30s caught the spirit of New York in that era with quite the pizazz of Martin Lewis (1881-1962), an Australian who came to the city at 19 and made it his own. Buildings, views, neighbourhoods, streetgangs, storefronts, rooftops, shoppers, workers, idlers relationships, even the weather, seem especially staged for Lewis, who got it all down in black and white, capturing people and architecture in the etching and dry point techniques of which he was a master..." --inside front cover.