id: 294175 accession number: 2017.1 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.1 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:53.961000 Alabama, 1960. Norman Lewis (American, 1909–1979). Oil on canvas; overall: 122.6 x 184.5 cm (48 1/4 x 72 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2017.1 © Estate of Norman W. Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY title: Alabama title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1960 creation date earliest: 1960 creation date latest: 1960 current location: 227 Abstract Expressionism creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: © Estate of Norman W. Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY --- culture: America technique: Oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Norman Lewis (American, 1909–1979) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 122.6 x 184.5 cm (48 1/4 x 72 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Recent Acquisitions opening date: 2018-03-17T04:00:00 Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-June 7, 2018). title: Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus opening date: 2022-02-20T05:00:00 Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Recent Acquisitions 2014-2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 17, 2018-June 6, 2018).', 'opening_date': '2018-03-17T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Litt, Steven. "'Alabama:' A Top Acquisition." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), March 26, 2017. page number: Mentioned: p. A6; Reproduced: p. A6 url: O'Grady, Megan, "Once Overlooked, Black Abstract Painters Are Finally Given Their Due," New York Times Style Magazine, February 14, 2021.
 page number: Mentioned and Reproduced url: Litt, Steven. "Cleveland Museum of Art Survey's America's Racial History Through Works by Modern, Contemporary Black Artists," Plain Dealer, February 27, 2022. page number: p. D-2. url: Bittencourt, Renata, "Art for Times of Insurrection," in Adriano Pederosa and Rodrigo Moura, eds., Melvin Edwards: Lynch Fragments, exh. cat. (Museu de arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Brazil, 2018). page number: Mentioned p. 16-17; reproduced p. 17. url: Amaki, Amalia K. "The African American Aspect of American Art," in Stephen M. Sessler, ed., American Art: Collecting and Connoisseurship (London: Merrell, 2020). page number: Mention, P. 115. url: Disman, Barry. Norman Lewis: A Retrospective: Catalogue. New York: City University of New York, 1976. page number: Mentioned: p. 11 url: Conwill, Kinshasha, and David Craven. Norman Lewis: Black Paintings 1946-1977. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 1998. page number: Mentioned: p. 13, 23, 27, 32, 39; Reproduced: fig. 18 url: McNally, Owen. "Black Tones, Bright Star." Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), March 28, 1999. page number: Mentioned url: https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1999-03-28-9903280453-story.html Damsker, Matt. "Transcending Race, Refining Abstraction." Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), April 4, 1999. page number: Mentioned url: Zimmer, William. "The Color Black: On the Painter's Canvas and the World." The New York Times (New York, NY), May 30, 1999. page number: Mentioned url: Gibson, Ann Eden. "Diaspora and Ritual: Norman Lewis's Civil Rights Paintings." Third Text 45 (June 2008). page number: Mentioned: 31, 39, 42 url: Wood, Sara. ""Pure Eye Music": Norman Lewis, Abstract Expressionism, and Bebop. In The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art, edited by Graham Lock and David Murray. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. page number: Mentioned: p. 101 url: Jones, Kellie. EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art. Duke University Press, 2011. page number: url: Tan, Mindy. "Canvas Politics: Norman Lewis and the Art of Abstract Resistance." PhD diss., Purdue University, 2015. page number: Mentioned: p. 30; Reproduced: p. 139 url: Welch, John. "Norman Lewis, Artist, Visionary, Humanist." IRAAA, 2015. page number: Mentioned; Reproduced url: http://iraaa.museum.hamptonu.edu/page/Norman-Lewis,-Artist,-Visionary,-Humanist Welch, John. "Discovering the Artistic Genius of Norman Lewis." The Root, December 20, 2015. page number: Reproduced url: https://www.theroot.com/discovering-the-artistic-genius-of-painter-norman-lewis-1790862122 Bradford, Mark. "Social Abstraction.' The International Review of African American Art, vol. 26 no. 1: 41-42. page number: Reproduced; p. 42 url: Blood, Anne. "The Indefatigable Curiosity of Norman Lewis." Hyperallergic, March 28, 2016. page number: Mentioned; Reproduced url: https://hyperallergic.com/286221/the-indefatigable-curiosity-of-norman-lewis/ Vali, Murtaza."Norman Lewis: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts." Artforum 54 (April 2016). page number: Mentioned: p. 240 url: Qui, Serena. "Norman Lewis: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts." Art in America 104 (June/July 2016). page number: Mentioned: p. 149; Reproduced: p. 149 url: Eisenman, Stephen. "Painting Black and Blue: A Review of Norman Lewis at the Chicago Cultural Center." Newcity Art (Chicago, IL), December 16, 2016. page number: Mentioned: Reproduced url: https://art.newcity.com/2016/12/16/painting-black-and-blue/ Litt, Steven. "Civil Rights Era Masterpiece by Norman Lewis Leads Acquisitions at Cleveland Museum of Art." Cleveland.com (Cleveland, OH), March 21, 2017. page number: Mentioned url: https://www.cleveland.com/arts/2017/03/norman_lewis_masterpiece_evoki.html Schreiber, Kelley Notaro. "Cleveland Museum of Art Announces New Acquisitions." The Cleveland Museum of Art, March 21, 2017, https://www.clevelandart.org/about/press/media-kit/cleveland-museum-art-announces-new-acquisitions-4. page number: Mentioned; Reproduced url: Litt, Steven. "Museum Director Wants More." Sunday Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), August 6, 2017. page number: Mentioned: p. A14 url: Grant, Daniel. "Top Museum Acquisitions: 2017 In Review." Antiques & Fine Art Magazine, Spring 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 101 url: Cole, Mark. “Acquisition Highlights: American Art.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58. no. 2 (March/April 2018): 18. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 18. url: Griswold, William M. “Recent Acquisitions (2013-20) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Burlington Magazine 163, no. 1414 (January 2021): 93-104. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 99, no. 12; mentioned: P. 93 url: Franke, Anselm. Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War.
Berlin : Haus der Kulturen der Welt ; Berlin : Sternberg Press 2021. page number: Reproduced: p. 434 url: --- IMAGES