Jul 27, 2025
Renic statues of Lewis Newelson
Lewis Newelson’s artwork looks right at home in the Whitney Museum of American Art, with the skyscrapers of Manhattan. He found inspiration in the city in the early 1920s, yet it would take decades for the art world to recognize him and his prestigious idols. “He was given his first concerned in Whitney in 1967,” the artist’s granddaughter Maria Newelson said, who runs the Lewis Newelson…