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Allegorical Hunters & Gatherers Diptych

Artist:Mary Amanda Lewis
Date:c. 1920s – 1930s
Medium:Oil on Board
Dimensions:Framed: 8.75" x 14.75" | Image Size: 5.25" x 11"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Decorative Art
Price: $2,200.00
A framed view of the pair

From early 20th-century landscape and still-life painter Mary Amanda Lewis comes two beautifully rendered oil on board paintings depicting the early life of hunters and gatherers. Presented in a diptych, one frame shows four men quietly stalking through the forest with bows and arrows while seeking out their prey. The other displays a group of women wading through field and forest with jugs balanced on top of their heads as they gather water and food from the local wild flora. Both paintings are presented in a beautiful art deco display with gold mat and housed behind glass in vintage bronze painted and carved wood frames. They make for a subtle yet elegant display.

Only one of these paintings is signed by the artist – M.A. Lewis appears in the bottom left corner of “The Hunters.”

A framed view of “The Gatherers”
A closeup, detail view of “The Gatherers”
A framed view of “The Hunters”
A closeup, detail view of “The Hunters”
The artist’s signature, lower left, in “The Hunters”
Verso (L-R, Hunters, Gatherers)

Born in San Francisco, CA on Sept. 19, 1872, the daughter of Cornelia Edgerton and Franklin Jay Lewis. Raised in an atmosphere of culture, Mary’s parents were fine musicians. As a child she studied art and music with her father and in the 1890s studied painting with Wm F. Jackson at Sacramento’s Crocker Art Gallery. She was among Wm M. Chase’s summer students in Carmel in 1914. Coming from a long line of musicians, she was also a cellist who performed for five years at the Del Monte Hotel in Monterey. She died in Sacramento on Sept. 25, 1953 having spent most of her life there. An Impressionist, her works show the influence of Chase. Exh: Calif. State Fair, 1891-95; Del Monte Art Gallery, 1910, 1912; Sacramento Hotel, 1911 (with her father); Sacramento Art League, 1912; Golden Gate Park Museum, 1915; San Francisco Art Association, 1916, 1917; Kingsley Art Club, Crocker Art Gallery, 1930-47. In: Society of Calif. Pioneers; Crocker Museum (Sacramento).

Allegorical Hunters & Gatherers Diptych

Artist: Mary Amanda Lewis
Price:  $2,200.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, 1930s, art deco, diptych, Mary Amanda Lewis, oil painting
Added to Gallery: October 31, 2019

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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