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CV of Stanley Lewis, sculptor and printmaker

 Born March 28th 1930 in Montreal

 
Studies
 
1949-53: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, School of Art and Design, with Dr. Arthur Lismer
  
1953-55: Istituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

1956-59: Atelier of Maestro V. Gambacciani, Florence, Italy.

 1963-65: Ein Hod Artists' Colony, Israel
 
Solo Exhibitions
   
1950: YMCA Montreal
Stone lithography and drawings
  
1952: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts     
Sculpture

 1953: Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal
Stone lithography from Mexican period
 
1955: Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal
 Drawings from Mexican period
      
1959: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
 Lifesize marble copy of Michelangelo’s Tondo Pitti, carved Florence

1960: Gallery Here and Now, Toronto
Sculpture
 
1960: Galerie Dresdnere, Montreal
Sculpture
  
1961: Galerie Libre, Montreal
First black and white stone-cut prints

1962: Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal
 Sculpture and stone-cut prints
 
1963: Le Centre d’Art du Mont-Royal, Montreal
Sculpture and stone-cut prints
 
1964: Galerie Libre, Montreal
Sculpture and stone-cut prints (first exhibition of multi-colour stone-cut prints produced
in Israel)
   
1965:  Israel Art Auction Gallery, Tel Aviv
Stone-cut prints under the patronage of Canadian Embassy in Israel
   
1965: The Art Den, Montreal.
Stone-cut prints.
    
1966: Galerie Moos, Montreal
Sculpture

1967: Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal
Stone-cut prints
   
1968: L’Auberge du Vieux St-Gabriel, Montreal
Stone-cut prints: “Man and Air Pollution”

1969: Saidye Brofman Centre, Montreal
Sculpture
 
1971: National Gallery of Ottawa, Ottawa
Stone-cut prints and woodcut prints
 
1971:  Palais des Arts Terre des Hommes, Montreal
 Stone-cut prints “Celestial Light.”
   
1971: Galerie Bienvenue, Montreal
Sculpture
 
1974: Le Centre d’Art du Mont-Royal, Montreal
 Stone-cut prints. “The Age of Violence.”
      
1974: Cummings House, Montreal
Drawings produced in Israel while observing the Yom Kippur war in situ at the Golan
Heights (Syria)

1975: Atelier J. Lukacs, Montreal
 Sculpture and stone-cut prints
   
1976: Atelier J.Lukacs, Montreal
Sculpture
     
1976: Galerie d’Art Artemus, Montreal
 Retrospective “Drawings 1950-1974”
 
1978: Galerie Libre, Montreal
 Lino-cut entitled “Tree Sprit” carved in situ, Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock area.

 1982:  Le Centre d’Art, Montreal 
Stone-cut prints

 1988:  La Galerie d’Arts Contemporains, Montreal
 Sculpture and Coloured Drawings
 
1992:  Westmount Square
 In commemoration of Montreal’s 350th anniversary, Sculpture

 1997: Place Ville-Maire, Montreal
 Multi-media sculpture entitled “The Flood and Rebirth.” 
 


Group Exhibitions
 
1953: Istituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Stone lithography and Sculpture
 
1954: Istituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Stone lithography and Sculpture
   
1958: Galerie del Ariete, Milan, Italy
 Sculpture
 
1959: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Gallery 12
Three years of marble carving created in Florence
 
1963: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Galerie de l’Etable
As founding member of L’Association des Sculpteurs du Quebec
 
1970: Musee Rodin, Paris
 Marble sculpture: “The Adolescent.”
  
1976: Yale University
 (with American artists Frank Stella, Robert Motherwell….)
      
1992: Musee du Quebec
(La Sculpture au Quebec 1946-1961)

 

Awards and Distinctions
 
1949: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design
Scholarship in painting
 
1950: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design
Scholarship in sculpture and graphics
    
1952- 1954- Istituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico   
Postgraduate scholarships to study stone sculpture and stone lithography

1956-1958- Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation
Three consecutive scholarships to study stone sculpture in Florence
 
1959: Musee du Quebec, Quebec
Concours artistique. Purchase prize: sculpture for permanent collection

1960: Musee du Quebec, Quebec
 National Art and Photography Exhibition.
 Prize for sculpture
 
1962: Musee du Quebec, Quebec         
National Art and Photography Exhibition.
Prize for stone-cut

 1963: Canadian Jewish Congress
Travel grant to Israel to create stone-cuts illustration “The Ten Commandments” using Jerusalem stone slabs. 
    
1966: Creates bronze of Samuel Bronfman.
   
1974: Canadian Jewish Congress.
 Travel grant to Israel (war artist documenting the Yom Kipper War)

1980s: Received recognition for advancing techniques – Institute of  Leonardo da Vinci, Florence.

Entry in
Who’s Who in American Jewry

Entry in Art and Antiques
 
500 prints bought for Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec
 
Posthumously
      
2006: Homage to Stanley Lewis. Back to Roots. Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal
 
2009: Sherbrooke Museum

2009: Kitchener Museum 



Chronology of Stanley Lewis
 

1930: born March 28; lives at 5252 Esplanade, Montreal


1949: begins his studies at the School of Art and Design, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, under Dr Arthur Lismer

1953: graduates from the School of Art and Design; begins studying at the Instituto San Miguel Allende, Mexico
    
1955:
La Molendaro (Corngrinder) completed; the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation awards him a scholarship to study in Italy 

1956: joins the studio of Vittorio Gambacciani in Florence

1958:
Pink Lady completed (Florence version)

1959: leaves Italy and returns to Canada; first show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal


1963: joins the Ein Hod artists’ colony, Israel

1965: marries at Ein Hod; leaves Israel and returns to Canada

1969: marries for the second time 

1990: decides to concentrate on stone carving in his studio on the Boulevard St Laurent, Montreal

2002: Jeanne Pope and Stanley Lewis begin artistic relationship 

 2005: plans a retrospective show; plans to travel to Aix-en-Provence to research Cezanne; starts work on
Bird &
Mask
; four documentary films featuring Stanley; hospitalized

2006: dies August 14 at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal; buried at the Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem Congregation Cemetery in Montreal


 
Museums, galleries, libraries and other institutions which hold artworks by Stanley Lewis

Artothèque de Montréal
        
Bibliothéque National du Quebec (500 prints)

Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal

Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop’s University, Lennoxville (12 prints)
 
Glenbow Museum, Calgary (stone-cut print of "The Imprisoned Astronomer")

Grimsby Public Art Gallery (a collection of prints)
 
Jewish Public Library, Montreal

Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery
 
Musée du Quebec
       
Museum of Fine Art, Montreal (a copy of Michelangelo’s "Tondo Pitti")

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa


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