Jennie Lewis
American printmaker
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| Intro | American printmaker | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Artist Printmaker | |
| Work field | Arts Business | |
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| Birth | 1892, San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA | |
| Death | 1944 (aged 52 years) |
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Biography
Jennie Lewis (1892–1944) was an American printmaker. She studied at the California School of Fine Arts and the California College of Arts and Crafts. In the 1930s, Lewis took part in the Federal Art Project run by the Works Progress Administration. Lewis died in a snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Her work is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.