A printmaker’s New York in shadows and light

Dock Workers Under the Brooklyn Bridge, 1916-1918
"Martin Lewis’ masterful etchings—which offer shadowy, poetic glimpses of 1920s and 1930s New York—have been featured on Ephemeral New York many times before. But just when I’d given up on finding new examples of the way he illuminates the darker (and sometimes darkly humorous) edges of the cityscape, I came across the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s digitized collection—which includes a trove of Lewis’ etchings. ..."
Ephemeral New York

Derricks, 1927