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At Lewisburg prison I worked at the pig farm

Tom Lewis

At Lewisburg prison I worked at the pig farm

1969

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Tom Lewis

At Lewisburg prison I worked at the pig farm

1969

Physical Qualities Color etching, Sheet: 392 x 558 mm. (15 7/16 x 21 15/16 in.) Plate: 304 x 443 mm. (11 15/16 x 17 7/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series From the portfolio "The Trial and Prison"
Credit Line Gift of Faye A. Houston and Michael A. Lowry, in Honor of William B. Lowry, Jr.
Object Number 2014.10.9
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2014; Faye A. Houston, Baltimore; purchased from the artist, 1969
Seamus Dockery, Guest Curator, Reeves Gallery, St. Ignatius Church, Baltimore, "Tom Lewis: Imprisonment Dreamscapes," 7 September - 28 September 2008.
Dowty, Morgan. "Incendiary Etchings: Tom Lewis and the Catonsville Nine." Art in Print: The Global Journal of Prints and Ideas 7.3 (September - October 2017): 8-12.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "At Lewisburg prison I worked at the pig farm"; lower center in graphite: "33/50"; lower right in graphite: "Thomas Lewis IMP/69"

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Tom Lewis

American, 1940-2008

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