Monty Lewis papers
name: label: Creator
content: Lewis, Monty, 1907-1997
label: Names
content: Coronado School of Fine Arts
topic: label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- California -- San Diego
label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration, American
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- New Jersey
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Printed material on reel LA 2 lent by Monty Lewis, 1965. Unmicrofilmed material donated 1998 by Kathryn Lewis Crane, daughter of Monty Lewis.
creator: label: Creator
content: Lewis, Monty, 1907-1997
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, muralist, educator; Coronado, Calif. Died 1997. Born in Cardiff, Wales, Lewis studied at the Art Students League in New York and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930, studying architecture and related art forms. His mural commissions include the Museum of Man Building for the 1939 New York World's Fair and for public schools in New Jersey. He moved to Coronado, Calif. in 1942 and founded the Coronado School of Fine Arts in 1945, serving as its director until 1990. At the time of its founding, it was the only school teaching the art of fresco. The school practiced a stylized method of instruction that was highly individualistic and informal, allowing instructors complete freedom in their teaching procedures.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928-[ca. 1960.]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lewimont
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL LA 2: A clipping, August 28, 1955, about Lewis; a book, Murals by American Painters and Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, 1932; a catalog, "The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art", vol. 4, July 1937; a newsletter, "Conferences on Inter-American Relations in the Fields of Art, Music, Education and Publications and Libraries, 1939-1940," March 1940.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Personal and business letters; Lewis' curriculum vitae; photographs of Lewis' WPA murals projects in New York and New Jersey and a renderings of a design proposal for a New Jersey WPA project; price lists of works; two travel diaries (1930-1931) from a trip to Europe; and a scrapbook, 1928-1947, containing newspaper articles, exhibition catalogs, and announcements.