Martin Lewis, Two A.M., drypoint and sand ground, edition 44, 1932. McCarron 101. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked, luminous impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 inches), in excellent condition.
Image size 8 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches (225 x 378 mm); sheet size 12 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches (327 x 505 mm).
"The neighborhood depicted is in the vicinity of Hudson and Bedford Streets in Greenwich Village. The signs above the storefronts in the left background include the names 'A. Landeck' and 'O.M. Torrington,' referring to Lewis' friend, artist Armin Landeck, and Otto M. Torrington, a partner at Kennedy & Company. The three women at the left, with their clinging dresses, have close affinities with the figures in the lithograph American Nocturne of 1937." – McCarron
Collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University), Detroit Institute of Arts, Library of Congress, University of Nebraska Art Galleries.
