The Old Print Shop

Railroad Yards, Winter, Weehawken.

  • ARTIST: Martin Lewis

  • MEDIUM: Oil on canvas,

    DATE: c.1917.

  • EDITION SIZE: Canvas size 21 x 25" (53.4 x 63.4 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: Signed lower left. <BR><BR> Illustrated in "Martin Lewis' Retrospective Exhibition: April 11-28, 1973" at Kennedy Galleries. <BR><BR> The painting is related to the etching that was produced in 1918 entitled "Above the Yards, Weehawken."<BR><BR> At the turn of the twentieth century Weehawken was a sprawling railroad yard with a number of ferry terminals that went into Manhattan. The painting shows a portion of the rail yards and the end of a major ferry terminal, likely the ferry that went to 42nd Street which stopped service in 1959. The painting is a wonderful work by Martin Lewis who is better known as a printmaker than a painter.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Very good condition.

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