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(Percy) Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was a novelist, painter, essayist, polemicist and one of the truly dynamic forces of the early 20th century and a central figure in the history of modernism. He was the founder of Vorticism, the only original movement in 20th century English painting. His Vorticist paintings from 1913 are the first abstract.

"That Lonely Old Volcano of the Right" Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 7 March 1957

Art Percy Wyndham Lewis, The Crowd, 1914-1915, Tate, London, UK. In this, Lewis' first Vorticist canvas from 1915 entitled The Crowd, he reduces the cityscape of factories and office blocks to a schematic composition in which basic pictorial representation of tiny, red workers congregate, pushing against one another, filling spaces, creating the mass of workers that the new factories were.

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Introduction Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 - 7 March 1957) was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.His novels include Tarr (1918) and The Human Age trilogy, composed of The Childermass (1928), Monstre Gai (1955) and Malign Fiesta (1955).

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Biography. A dynamic, idiosynchratic figure in British avant-garde art in the years leading up to World War I, Percy Wyndham Lewis was one of Britain's leading abstract painters and co-founder (with Ezra Pound) of the Vorticism movement - one of the few abstract art movements launched in Britain - whose literary magazine (BLAST) he edited.

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Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 - 7 March 1957) was an English writer, painter and critic (he dropped the name "Percy", which he disliked). He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST. His novels include his pre-World War I-era novel Tarr (set in Paris), and The Human.

Percy Wyndham Lewis Composition in Red and Mauve, 1915 Pen, ink, chalk and gouache on paper

Percy Wyndham Lewis was born in 1882 to Charles and Anne Lewis, an English couple who had emigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada. Charles, a wine salesman, spent much of his life travelling, leaving Anne feeling unhappy and lonely. The family moved to the UK, via Montreal and Portland (USA), when Lewis was aged just six..

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Wyndham Lewis, (born November 18, 1882, on a yacht near Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada—died March 7, 1957, London, England), English artist and writer who founded the Vorticist movement, which sought to relate art and literature to the industrial process.. About 1893 Lewis moved to London with his mother after his parents separated. At age 16 he won a scholarship to London's Slade School of.

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Percy Wyndham Lewis (1884 - 1957) Lewis was reputedly born aboard his father's yacht off the coast of Nova Scotia, to an English mother and American father. He studied at the Slade School of Art and, at various stages in his early career was associated with the Camden Town Group, the Omega Workshop and the Rebel Art Centre.

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Lewis died on March 7, 1957 in London, United Kingdom. Today, the artist's works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others. Wyndham Lewis was an English writer and artist who founded the Vorticist movement.

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Percy Wyndham Lewis was born November 18, 1882, on a ship anchored off Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Although he retained a Canadian passport, his upbringing had little to do with that country. His father, Charles Lewis, was an American military officer, while his mother, Ann, came from south London, England. An only child, Lewis was sent to.

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Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) served as an official British artist during the First World War in addition to serving as a battery officer. Sponsored Links. Born in Nova Scotia in 1882 Lewis was educated in England at the renowned Rugby School. Thereafter accepted into Slade School of Art in 1898 Lewis graduated in 1901 and embarked upon a.

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Percy Wyndham Lewis. Amherst, 1882-London, 1957. A painter and writer, Percy Wyndham Lewis was a key figure in spreading the modern movement in the United States. He studied painting at the Slade School of Art and spent from 1902 to 1908 travelling around Europe, where he visited many museums. On returning he settled in London, where his.

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Percy Wyndham Lewis, the son of Captain Charles Edward Lewis, was born in Amehurst, Nova Scotia on 18th November, 1882. His father had been educated at West Point and had fought in the American Civil War. In 1893 the couple separated and his mother returned to England where she had been born.

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Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 - 7 March 1957) was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.. His novels include Tarr (1918) and The Human Age trilogy, composed of The Childermass (1928), Monstre Gai (1955) and Malign Fiesta (1955). A fourth volume, titled The Trial of Man, was.

Percy Wyndham Lewis (18821957)

Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 - 7 March 1957) was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.His novels include Tarr (1918) and The Human Age trilogy, composed of The Childermass (1928), Monstre Gai (1955) and Malign Fiesta (1955