Norman Lewis

	1909	Born in New York City, July 23
	1979	Died in New York City, August 27
Education
	1933-35	Columbia University and The John Reed Club Art School, New York Accepted into the Federal Art Program of the Works Progress Administration, (WPA)
Chronology
	1998	Black New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; catalogue Norman Lewis: Black Paintings 1946-1977, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; other venues; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; catalogue 1960s: Paintings & Works on Papers, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1989	Norman Lewis: From the Harlem Renaissance to Abstraction, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
	1976	First retrospective exhibition, Norman Lewis, A Retrospective, Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
	1975	Awarded a fellowship from the John Solomon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
	1972-79	Taught at The Art Students League, New York
	1972	Awarded Mark Rothko Foundation grant and an Individual Artists’ Fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts
	1971	Black Artists: Two Generations, The Newark Museum, New Jersey
	1969	With Romare Bearden and Ernest Crichlow founded the Cinque Gallery in New York
	1964	Final solo exhibition at the Willard Gallery. Relocates to California.
	1963	A founding member of Spiral, group of African-American artists that included Charles Alston, Romare Bearden and Hale Woodruff
	1958	Nature in Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
	1952	Received honorable mention in the 10th Annual American Drawing, Virginia Museum, Norfolk
	1951	Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
	1950	The only African-American artist to be included in the Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35, intended to define the Abstract Expressionist movement. The sessions were jointly moderated by Alfred J. Barr, Jr., and included Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Ad Reinhardt
	1949	First solo exhibition at the Willard Gallery. Lewis would have solo exhibitions at the gallery in 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1957, 1961.
	1946	Accepted into the Marian Willard Gallery, New York. The gallery also represented Lyonel Feininger, Morris Graves, Mark Tobey and David Smith
	1943	Designer of the war relief poster for the Congress of Industrial Organization,(CIO).
	1940	Art of the American Negro, Tanner Galleries, Chicago, IL
	1935-37	Taught at P.S.139 and the Harlem community Art Center in New York, under the auspices of the WPA
	1935	Founding member of the Harlem Artists Guild. Members included Romare Bearden, Selma Burke and Beauford and Joseph Delaney
	1934	Member of the famed "306 Group," an organization of artists and writers that met in the studio of painter Charles Alston
	1933	Began painting at Augusta Savage’s Uptown Art Laboratory, New York