Monty Lewis (1907–1997) was an American painter, muralist, and educator. He was a 1930

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

Life

Lewis was born in

Cardiff, Wales Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...

. He studied at the

Art Students League of New York The Art Students League of New York is an art school at 215 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York. The League has historically been known for its broad appeal to both amateurs and professional artists. Although artists may stu ...

. He was a member of the

Federal Art Project The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administrati ...

, and painted murals at the Museum of Man building at the

1939 New York World's Fair The 1939–40 New York World's Fair was a world's fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was the second-most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchas ...

as well as public schools in New Jersey. He was founder and director of the Coronado School of Fine Arts. His papers are held at the

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References

External links

Oral history interview with Monty Lewis, 1964 June 25
*http://schools.nyc.gov/community/facilities/PublicArt/Art/default.htm?ac=283 *http://coronadolibrarylookout.blogspot.com/2011/11/art-in-coronado-library.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Monty 1907 births 1997 deaths Artists from Cardiff Welsh expatriates in the United States Federal Art Project artists