Niles Lewandowski 1970 Lithographs Including Depicting Merle Rosen

Item Details

Niles Lewandowksi (Maryland, 20th century)
Dark Room and Light Window, Morning Mirrors, and Untitled, 1970
Three lithographs on paper
Signed to the lower right
Editioned 2/8, 4/8, and 5/10
Titled works are thought to depict the nude figure of artist Merle Rosen

Provenance
From the estate of Merle Rosen

Merle Rosen (1949 – 2017) was a prominent Cincinnati folk artist, practicing in Cincinnati for more than 40 years. She showed extensively in museums and galleries including the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati), J.B. Speed Museum (Louisville, KY), Kharkiv Museum in the Ukraine, Cincinnati Art Galleries, Carnegie Arts Center (Covington, KY), Chaucer Galleries (Scottsdale, AZ), and C.A.G.E. During her lifetime, Rosen received six individual artists grants from the City of Cincinnati. In addition to institutional and private collections, Rosen’s work his housed in numerous corporate collections, including: The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati Bell, Scripps Howard, Bethesda Hospitals, Ulmer & Berne and Cardinal Aluminum. Rosen worked in a multitude of mediums and she began teaching art professionally at the age of 15 and taught throughout her career.

Condition

- toning to paper; marks throughout particularly to the edges; tape residue to untitled work.

Dimensions

- measures largest sheet.

Item #

ITMG269654