Gallery Edition – Design for a Printers Device by Arthur Allen Lewis – 44×58 Interior Architectural Study

Curatorial Narrative In the early 20th century, Arthur Allen Lewis’s “Design for a Printer’s Device” exemplifies the modernist pursuit of reducing form to its essential elements. This architectural drawing, likely created between 1900 and 1924, showcases Lewis’s mastery of linear brushwork, which imbues the composition with a sense of precision and restraint. The greenish-gray background, punctuated by black and white details, establishes a chromatic structure that is at once somber and luminous. This palette, paired with the subject’s architectural focus, generates an atmosphere of disciplined elegance, evoking the sparse, modernist interiors of the era.When enlarged to 44×58 inches, “Design for a Printer’s Device” assumes a spatial rhythm that reverberates through a luxury interior environment. The linear brushwork, now amplified, creates a sense of tautness that can be balanced by pairing with materials possessing a similar tensi