| Allen Lewis | ||
| Birth Date: April 7, 1873 |
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| Death Date: March 20, 1957 Artist Gallery |
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| Born in Mobile, Alabama, April 7, 1873, Allen Lewis, a craftsman at heart, eventually became a member of the Buffalo Art Students League where he studied under the Canadian painter, George Bridgman. He furthered his career in Paris; and it was during this time that he made his first etchings, was accepted into the Paris Salon of 1900, and joined the American Art Association of Paris.
Subsequent to spending eight years abroad, he returned to New York where he focused on bookplates, showed his work at Gallery 291, and had his first one-man exhibition. An Associate of the National Academy of Design (later, he became a full Academician), and the first president of the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, Lewis earned a bronze medal at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and a gold medal at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.
Lewis passed his skills onto others while teaching printmaking and illustration at the Art Students League in New York and teaching later at the New School for Social Research. In his later years, he tried to promote a theory in which all art is and was based upon a system focused around the square and the compass; but it was to no avail.
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