Hubert Robert Lewis

The Man, the Artist

      Looking at the old photos I have of my great grandparents, I can see only dark eyes, in shades of black, white, grey and sepia. I see the somberness of a young man in the late 1800’s, and the slight smiles that sometimes shown through as the same man aged.  It is said that people rarely smiled back then due to the time it took for a photograph to be captured, and due to lack of dental care. Seeing into the souls of the dark, blurry eyes and straight closed mouths is given some depth by the other slightly nuanced looks. Their clothing in the photos further explains some of their lives’ and the goings-on of the times.

      A well-dressed young man, in a three-piece suit with a bow-tie, and a kerchief in his front left pocket, shows he is ready to emigrate and face America. I wonder what his dreams were as he was sailing with his father, and younger brother. Did he dream of working in the steel mills, the very work that gave him a job and a chance in the United States? Or was he already making plans to become an artist?  Who was this artist? Who was this man?

On a visit to the town of Govan, Scotland, young Thomas Lewis and his wife Adelaid welcomed their first son into the world on April 5, 1865. Hubert Robert Lewis was the eldest of seven children.

Hubert was just a boy of 17 when he arrived in McKeesport, Pennsylvania in 1882 to work in the steel mills from Wales.

Hubert met Sarah Benjamin, who was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England and arrived in the United States as a baby in 1867. Three years after his arrival to the United States, Hubert and Sarah eloped on February 18, 1885.        Together they bore five children.

            Sarah was supportive of Hubert’s work as an artist. He was working in the rolling mills in Apollo when he received his first commission. It was a portrait of an Apollo tailor, who paid him with two custom-made suits.

Hubert was a self-taught artist, starting his career in 1891 at 26 years of age. In 1893 he received honorable mention at the World’s Columbian Exhibition at Chicago for one of his works. I have a copy of the letter he lovingly wrote to Sadie while at World’s Fair.

Hubert sat daily in front of his easel creating pastels and paintings of landscapes, people, and florals, as well as replicating famous art pieces; however, he gave few public exhibits. His works are signed either H. Lewis, or less commonly H.R. Lewis. Some of his works also bear the year of the painting. Sadly, all do not.

Unfortunately, some of his paintings or pastels were listed on some auction or antiques site forums as being a Henry Lewis, or a few people inquired, perhaps it was a Hugo Lewis. I answered on forums informing people who Hubert Lewis was and leaving my email if they wanted to contact me about him. I have also checked signatures to help determine if the signature on the work matches the signature I have of Hubert Lewis’s.

Then I found out about the confusion of H. Lewis being a pseudonym for R. Atkinson Fox prints. I happened onto a popular auction site and saw for myself an H. Lewis print listed as R.A.Fox print signed H.Lewis ( pseudonym ). The R Atkinson Fox Society spokesperson explained that around 10-15 years ago there was confusion, as R Atkinson Fox had many pseudonyms, and the style of both artists were alike in some ways. However, that confusion was cleared up when it was discovered that Hubert was, in fact, a real artist.

Kim Lawler

Great granddaughter of H R Lewis

Self portrait

Girl Playing the Piano

My mother was always proud of her grandfather’s paintings and pastel chalk art work, and we, her children, knew just how important these pieces of art that she owned were to her.  So important, that when she knew she was stricken with cancer, she gave each of us, except my brother who was estranged from my mother at the time, at least one piece of our great-grandfather’s art, before she died. My mother was afraid we may not get them otherwise, due to my stepfather’s side of the family. It turned out she was right to worry, and we were lucky she had the foresight to pass the art down a couple of years before her death.

      The painting I received was one I had spent many hours appreciating as a child. In fact, I loved all the art that I knew of my great- grandfather’s but this one was special to me, and it made me feel very worthy that my mother entrusted this particular piece to me. The painting depicts a young blonde woman, in a in a patterned blue mid-19^th century dress, floor length, fluted three-quarter length sleeves, playing a piano. The piano is covered with an ivory cloth, and bears two unlit candles, as well as a fine branch fruited with white, pink, and red cherry blossoms gracing a blue pot-bellied vase.

When I had time to truly look at the painting, to appreciate it, it transported me to a different era. I imagined the woman’s fine porcelain fingers lithely pressuring the keys to perform Für Elise, one of the few classical piano compositions I knew as a child.  I wondered if my great-grandfather knew this young woman before he painted her, or was she a figment of his imagination. The answer to that question still eludes me.

      Apparently my great-grandfather painted more than one of these, as I found out later at least one relative has a painting of the same girl at the piano.

        A short time ago, I had the feeling that I should look up H. Lewis on the internet, to see if I could find any information on him or his work.   I had done this before and had only found a website, through my brother, which had some information and some misinformation about H. Lewis, the artist. The night I had the feeling to look him up again, I found three of his art pieces, and for the next two weeks, I found five more pieces for sale, and many more through a distant relative and some that had been sold in different auctions.

      This rekindled my interest in my great-grandfather and his work. I decided if there was no compilation of information I could find about him or his art, then perhaps I should be the one to compile it.

      Some of the information I acquired is from some pages of our family heritage that my mother put together for us. As far as I know it was from word of mouth, and what she could find at ancestry websites and from other family members exploring our genealogy. So I cannot attest to its complete accuracy, but it is as true as the old written records and the memories of elder relatives, and the passed down stories can be. Other information was gathered from living relatives that were grandchildren or great grandchildren of Hubert Lewis, again from the lore passed down.

Emigrating from the Old Country

      On a visit to the industrial town of Govan, Scotland, young Thomas Lewis and his wife Adelaid welcomed their first child, a son, into the world on April 5, 1865. Hubert Robert Lewis was the eldest of seven children. The first two children, both sons, were born in Scotland, and the younger five children were born in Wales.

      Govan, Scotland is situated at the confluence of the rivers Clyde and Kelvin. Govan translated from Gaelic means the land of Smith, and may have been named due to its reputation as an area where metal was worked. The proximity to the river, and the deepening of the river allowed a burgeoning Govan to continue to grow with commerce and shipyards. Govan mushroomed during the industrial revolution. In 1864, a year before the birth of Hubert, Govan earned its burgh status in recognition of its importance as a center of commerce and industry.1

      Thomas was a Welsh steel worker, who lived, with his wife and children in Wales.  Britain (England and Wales) were big producers of pig iron and steel and approximately 40% of the output in 1875 was exported to the US.2

The US was working to increase production of steel and small steel plants were being built in the United States. The promoters sent scouts out to the old country to sign up experienced help to operate them. Thomas was a trained roller, whose work it was to reduce iron from balls to sheets using a steamer-hammer.      Hubert was said to also work in the steel mills starting at age 12, painting the gauge of the steel onto the rolled steel sheets. Thomas Lewis, and his two oldest children, Hubert and Leonard, were recruited by the Demmler brothers, who were building a finishing mill in Demmler, Pennsylvania. The three Lewis’ left Wales in 1882, boarded a ship from either England or Queensland, Ireland, leaving Adelaid to follow later with the five younger children.

      Hubert was just a boy of 17 when he arrived in McKeesport, Pennsylvania to work in the steel mills.  The steel mills and tin-plate mills were undergoing important changes during this time, including the fact that imports that were sold cheaper than US products, and in 1882, the general strike of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, which represented skilled trades in the mills around Pittsburgh, closed the McKeesport plant.       The resulting shutdown drove U.S. Iron & Tin Plate Co. into insolvency; Demmler foreclosed on the mill, then bought the company’s assets out of sheriff’s sale, and reorganized U.S. Iron & Tin Plate Co. as a limited partnership controlled by his sons and several other investors.

After the mill had gone back into operation a $100,000 fire gutted the entire plant; on the morning of Feb. 18, 1883, sparks generated by the plant’s boiler house set the roof on fire. Insurance covered about half of the damage and once again the Demmlers paid to put the plant back into operation. 3

The Lewis family was able to stay afloat during this tumultuous time, and found work where able.

Leon and Hubert Lewis, photo on tin plate

Sarah and Hubert Lewis late 1890’s

Sarah Benjamin

      Sarah Benjamin, who was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England on December 8, 1867 arrived in the United States as a baby when her father was recruited by a company named Banfield, that was building a basic operation in Leechburg, Pennsylvania. She was the second of seven children.

      Hubert met Sarah, and three years after his arrival to the United States, they eloped and married on February 18, 1885. They did not flee far to elope, just the north side at the Sandusky Street Baptist Church in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. It would seem he was smitten with her for life.

          Together they bore five children, the first a girl, Beatrice, in 1886. Then the only boy, John Donald Lewis was born, followed by Garnet. Sarah wanted the next daughter to be named Pauline, but Hubert wanted the more dramatic name of Mercedes, thus she was dubbed Pauline Mercedes, and went by her middle name because she enjoyed the drama of it as well. The youngest child was my grandmother Hazel Huberta born in 1900. My mother related that my grandmother bemoaned her name, saying of all the names in the bible she had to be named after a nut.

Lewis home early 1900’s

1 http://www.sunnygovan.com/PLACES/AboutGovan.html  p 7

2 http://www.conservapedia.com/Steel_industry#19th_century_trends

3 The ‘Tinplate Liar’ of McKeesport
A McKeesport businessman helped build the U.S. steel industry … and send William McKinley to the White House © 2007 Jason Togyer, all rights reserved.

Pastel-Still Life Fruit

This still life, signed H. Lewis was purchased from ebay from a seller in Lambertville, NJ.

Landscape-Hudson River School-like Style

This landscape pastel, signed H. Lewis, was also purchased through ebay and came from the seller’s grandmother’s home in Westminster, South Carolina.  It is done in a style like that done in the Hudson River School style.

River landscape

This river landscape pastel is also considered a Hudson River School style. It too was purchased on ebay from Derry, New Hampshire.

Replica of the famous Pinkie by Thomas Lawrence

H Lewis painted replicas of famous paintings. He was awarded an Honorable Mention for a Pinkie at a 1905 New York fair. This painting was found at Runkdouglas.com, a website for Antiques and fine art in Southport, CT. Hubert painted more than one of these, and also painted the Blue Boy more than once. A Blue Boy painting hangs in at least one of my cousin’s homes.

Pastel of a camp site

The camp sites appear to be one of Hubert ‘s favorite subjects. This one seems to be at dusk, whereas many are done more brightly. This was purchased from a gentleman who lives in Pittsburgh and said this pastel was in his family for many years.

Floral oil painting by H. Lewis

Originally listed as a Henry Lewis, I informed seller that signature (H. Lewis) was from Hubert Lewis.
Beautiful purples, pinks and yellows, this photograph does not do this floral oil painting justice.

Girl Playing the Piano

1948 painting signed HR Lewis of a girl playing the piano that hung in my child hood home, and now hangs in my parlor.

HR Lewis signature, from the Girl Playing Piano painting

      There are, it turns out, several artists with either the first or last name of Lewis. Unfortunately, since Hubert Lewis signed his art either H. Lewis or H. R. Lewis, it has led to much confusion among those trying to sell his works. I have found pieces that looked like works I had seen personally, and the signature was like those above, either H. R. Lewis or just  H. Lewis, but they were listed as Henry Lewis, or Lewis Harris, and his prints have been called R. Atkinson Fox work’s using the pseudonym H. Lewis. I am sure there are probably others artists hen has been confused with, but these are the ones I have proof of, and have been able to find.

      Other clues for me to understand these were indeed from my great grandfather, besides the signature, were descriptions of who had the art before it was to sell at the auction house and where it came from. If it was from Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, New York, or Ohio, and had the same signature, then it gives just that much more credence that it is Hubert’s art.

I have corrected a few ebay listings, as has another Hubert Lewis art collector, when we see what is probably an H. Lewis piece. First, I ask to see a signature, if it isn’t shown well on photos of the listing. Everyone who I have asked to do this complies. Then if it is a Hubert Lewis signature, I explain to the seller that the listing is either incorrect if they have listed another artist instead, or I give them information about Hubert Lewis so they can share it on the listing if they want.

      One auction site had a photo of a landscape, with the description “Lewis Harris-Dutch Landscape After Gorter, Pastel signed lower Right H. Lewis and inscribed After Gorter.” Unfortunately, I cannot see the signature to determine if it is indeed a Hubert Lewis pastel, but I am not sure why an artist named Lewis Harris would use H. Lewis rather than L. Harris as his signature. And it does look a great deal like Hubert’s work. However, I cannot verify this.

      Another auction site had this listing:

Signed H. Lewis GORGEOUS
Up for auction is a gorgeous ORIGINAL pastel painting, signed H. Lewis in a home made frame. We went out and researched H. Lewis pastels and found this, that certainly matched this pieces description of material. From a forum on H. Lewis.
I have an H. Lewis painting of flowers in a vase framed by a hand made frame similar to the one displayed here. I was given this painting by a woman whose house I had purchased in 1993 in Nutley, NJ. She had about 150 painting all by H. Lewis. It turns out that H. Lewis was her grandfather. H. Lewis was from from Europe (a Dutch painter). He and his brother (whose 1st name escapes me) also was a painter but was not as good or popular as H. Lewis (I don’t remember what H stood for — but it was not Hugo). Miss Lewis (the grand daughter) was in her 80′s when I bought the house from her and was never married. She inherited all of his art which will go to her nephew when she dies (she already may have passed away). One of H. Lewis’s paintings of a flower garden that has steps leading to a pond is quite famous and was highly reproduced in the 20′ and 30′s. H. Lewis made his own frames and often were quite ornate. H. Lewis also worked with pastels — I saw many of his unfinished works, mostley done on thick paper resembling cardboard.
This painting depicts a fall landscape with bright colors accented by his bright red frame. It measures approx. 24 3/4″ x 16 3/4″ framed. WONDERFUL!! If anyone can add any additional information on H. Lewis would greatly appreciate it.

      And I too saw that information on the forum, and when I read it, I realized the poster was describing my mother’s cousin Virginia, aka Ginnie, as the aunt who had many of H. Lewis paintings. The signature on the piece is certainly Hubert Lewis’s.

      So this is another way that misinformation is spread; someone is trying to research the piece they have and they happen on a forum where others are trying to figure out who the artist of their piece is as well. Unfortunately, on that particular forum there is a lot of misinformation about the pieces signed H. Lewis, because he most certainly was not Dutch, but there are also facts within all the posts, as well. Which is another reason I started this blog and am writing these articles, to help clear up confusion and misinformation.

      Because I also do not want to spread misinformation about Henry Lewis, Lewis Harris, Hugo Lewis, or R. Atkinson Fox, or any other artist for that matter, I will not post mini-biographies on the aforementioned painters. Who I am certain are wonderful artists in their own right. Since I do not know them well enough, I will not rely on what is posted on the internet to profile them.

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My cousins, Gina, Julie, Lynn, and I, all great granddaughters of Hubert Lewis, and granddaughters of his fifth child Hazel Huberta Rogers, got together last Sunday to share what we knew, or had heard, about Hubert Lewis and his art, as well as discussing our general genealogy. My Aunt Ann, Julie’s mother, joined us, too.  It was good conversation, we all had information to share, and each of us learned something new.

I also had the pleasure of seeing and photographing four of the Hubert Lewis paintings that Julie had hung in her house. As I was photographing the pictures, I noticed on the fifth piece, that it was not signed H. Lewis, but M. Rosendahl.

River landscape painted by Marion Rosendahl, granddaughter of Hubert Lewis

M. Rosendahl would be Marion Rosendahl, the grandchild of Hubert and Sarah Lewis, child of Garnet and Harlof Rosendahl.  Garnet was only 23 or 24 years old when she died in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. Marion was less than a year old when her mother died. Hubert and Sarah raised Marion shortly thereafter. The picture wasn’t dated, so we can’t know if Marion painted it while living with her grandparents, or if she created it later in life.

Jim Rogers, Hazel’s eldest child, and grandson to Hubert Lewis, was an artist in his own right, as well. His daughter, the aforementioned Julie Rogers, has been an artist much of her life,  having grown up with quite creative parents.

Colorful floral with dark background

Wooded path

Still life fruit signed HR Lewis

Flowers in vase

House on river with sailboats

Flowered Cottage

I “met” my second cousin Dale from seeing her post on a forum about H. Lewis works. She mentioned in the post that she was a great granddaughter to Hubert Lewis, which meant we were related. Through the wonder of facebook and email, I was able to connect with her. Dale’s grandmother was Mercedes, who bore Garnet Jeanne (named after her Aunt Garnet who died in the 1918 flu epidemic), and Garnet had Dale.

Dale’s daughter is gifted in art. She majored in painting/fine art at Rhode Island School of Design, and got her masters in fine art at U Penn. She is an art teacher and head of the art department at a school in Rhode Island, and continues to show at various art galleries.

Garnet Jeanne has many pieces of Hubert’s in her home. The photos are not high quality, but the art is still beautiful.

River landscape

Winter landscape with snow

River landscape with path

Autumn

Autumn on a path painting

Autumn path and river

Cows drinking at the lake

Winter landscape with cottage

Autumn trees

Children gathering wood at the creek

Mountain and sailboats

Mountain and bridge

Still life roses

Wide painting of still life roses

Still life floral

Wooded creek

Still life fruit with vase

Cows in the pasture

Due to the confusion of the signature of H. Lewis, two forums were started on the antiqueandthearts.com website by folks who owned pieces of his art trying to figure out just who the signature belonged to. I left my contact information on the forum and I received emails from a couple of collectors who had H. Lewis art. We cleared up the confusion using the signature I have on my Girl Playing the Piano painting.

I recently wrote back to the owners of the art work and asked if I could post their pieces. This post contains two of the landscape-type from Dave Kennedy in Seneca Falls, NY.

I believe both are pastels, with ornate frames signed H. Lewis. Dave tells me he has about seven of H. Lewis’s pieces.

It was good to know that others, who were not relatives, enjoyed Hubert art and that it still hangs in in people’s homes.

My cousin Gina brought along some photos of H. Lewis’s art to our cousin get-together. These come from her mother, Jeanie’s, home.

As the youngest daughter of the youngest daughter (Hazel) of Hubert Lewis’s, Doris Jean Boynton is one of the few surviving grandchildren. Born Doris Jean Rogers, my aunt prefers to be called Aunt Jeanie.

Hubert Lewis painted several family members, and his youngest daughter, Hazel, was the subject in two pieces that I know of. One of her as a young woman, which appears in this post and another as a young married woman with her husband AP Rogers (my sister Teri owns that piece). The blue spot on the photo is from printer ink, not on the art itself.

Grandma Hazel Rogers Hubert’s youngest child) as a young woman

Posted below are the other works that are in Aunt Jeanies’s house. The photos have been retouched to restore color due to printing and scanning.

Meadow Path

River and woods landscape

Sail Boat on Water

I found Paul and Darla (my second cousin, great-granddaughter of Hubert Lewis) through an antiques and art website forum. I contacted Paul through the email he left on the site. They have been a wonderful source of information to me, sending me photos of art, information about the family that I didn’t have, as well as giving me leads to new information.

They, along with Darla’s mother Jean, have a fantastic collection of H. Lewis’s work.

Self portrait Hubert Lewis

Floral with green vase

Fox Hunt

John D Lewis Hubert’s son, Darla’s grandfather

Day’s Catch pastel

Jean Wolcott Lewis (Darla’s mother)

Beech Tree Lane

Blue Boy signed HR Lewis

Cottage

Cottage 2

Country Road

Country Stream

Evening pastel

Forest pastel

Sunny Path pastel

Sailing Ship

Single Flower in Pot

Winterscape

Woods with Sun Break signed H. R. Lewis

Farm with boat

My brother John has attempted to reduce the confusion of who H. Lewis was on an antiques and art website forum, and gave me the website information a few years ago to help defend our great-grandfather’s art. Seeing this forum helped to spur me into motion to also defend the art by spreading correct information.

My mother gave  John two chalks done by our great-grandfather, Hubert Lewis. The frames on these pieces are exquisite.

Landscape with House and Boat in background

Water Landscape

I received an email yesterday from John Hundley:

“Hello,

I was searching the internet yesterday to see if I could find out anything about an artist who signed his work – H. Lewis.  My wife and I bought a pastel landscape of his about 30 years ago at an antique store where we live in Wyandotte, Mi..  It hung in our dining room for several years until we redecorated and then it went into storage.  Our son moved out last year and we redid his room.  Now a guest room filled with many of the antiques we had in either the basement or the attic.

Found your blog and had to let you know how exciting it is to find out who drew our piece of art.  I am a family history and genealogy freak and searched the 1920 and 1930 census records for Hubert and found him working as an artist at a frame company.  I’m sure it is in it’s original frame.  We couldn’t have paid more than $35.00 at the time we bought it.”

Enjoying your great grandfather’s art,
John Hundley

Well, John and Kim, I very much appreciate you contacting me and allowing me to share your piece here. It gives me great pleasure to know that my great-grandfather’s art dons the wall in a room made so lovely by the antiques and art you are displaying.

I’m sure that is the original frame, as well. As you can see from the other photos on the website there are several with decorative frames, but it seems no two are alike. My brother John has two chalks that we grew up with, so I love that style. Your antique room is a perfect place for it.

I hope this encourages others to send me photos of their H. Lewis art, because I would love to display every piece.

Thank you again,

Kim

Pastel Landscape by H. Lewis, owned by John and Kim Hundley

H. Lewis landscape owned by John and Kim Hundley

Both of my sisters, one older than me and one younger, now live in California. Jane transplanted after living much of her life in Portland, OR. Teri lived for many years in New York before relocating to San Francisco. Through the moves, they still have their art given to them by our mother shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer.

I recently acquired a print of the painting Poppies painted by our great-grandfather, Hubert Lewis. I remembered seeing that painting at some relative’s home, but I just couldn’t quite remember whose. Then my sister Jane sent me emails yesterday with her pieces from H. R. Lewis and, lo and behold, there was the painting of the Poppies! I’m not sure how I forgot that I grew up with it, especially since I like it so much.

Poppies

The other piece, a landscape with a crisp lake in the foreground and a snowy mountain in the background is signed H. R. Lewis, as is the Poppies painting.

Snowy Mountain Landscape

Teri sent me her photos, as well. She received the chalk of our grandparents, Hazel and Alexander P. Rogers. It looks so much like a photo with it’s detail that one way to know it’s a chalk is because it’s in color, whereas photos back then were only in black and white. I estimate it was done in the early 1920′s because they were married in September of 1924. I don’t know if it was taken before or after they married. Grandma would have been in her early 20′s to mid-20′s since she was born in 1900, and Grandpa was probably in his late 20′s or early 30′s since he was born in 1895.

Chalk of Grandpa and Grandma Rogers

Teri’s other painting she called “Fruity Lewis” is a basket bursting with strawberries and bananas are next to the basket on a plate on the table.

Basket Bursting with Strawberries

Paul and Darla requested other family members send their photos of pictures they own of H. Lewis’s work. They received a response from Darla’s brother. A few of the photographs were not posted due to quality issues. The Poppies are present again, but in a variation.

Poppies

Path by a Stream

Hay to Market

Running Water

Grapes Hanging with Pears

Mountain Pool

Still River

By the River

Choppy Seas

Camping

Duck Crossing

Second cousins Paul and Darla sent me a photo of this picture of our great-grandmother Sarah Lewis that they found in Darla’s mother’s (Jean Lewis) attic. I believe Hubert created it with chalk. Sarah and Hubert were married in 1885 and were together for 67 years until Hubert’s death in 1952.

I received a message from a distant relative, Michelle Benjamin, through this website. Michelle is the great-granddaughter of one of Sarah Benjamin Lewis’s brothers, John Benjamin. We share great-great-grandparents, therefore the Michelle is my 3^rd cousin. I shared some of the photos I have of Sarah and John Benjamin’s parents with Michelle. Hubert was John Benjamin’s brother-in-law, which would make Hubert Michelle’s great-great uncle.

It would seem Hubert was generous with giving other family his art work, not just his children,  as Michelle had five to share here. Michelle told me that she knew the art she inherited was created by a relative, but said she didn’t really know who H. Lewis was or the stories behind him until she found my website.

The first Smooth Stream is much like John and Kim Hundley’s On the Bank, as well as Dave Kennedy’s Running Stream once again.

Smooth Stream

Camping is a variation on the campsite type pictures.

By the Stream

Autumn Path

Winter Walk

More landscapes, as well.

I finally approved the last proof of the book Hubert Lewis the Artist: His Life, Family and Work! I’ve been researching, writing, proofing and rewriting, since December 2012. With the help of many people, I believe I have gathered much information and data about Hubert Lewis, enough to paint a picture of the artist’s life.

Hubert Lewis the Artist: His Life, Family and Work

https://www.createspace.com/4325598

The book features art from this blog site, and much more. There is more of Hubert Lewis’s work out there, and I welcome any one who would like me to include their name and a photo of their piece of H. Lewis art to comment here and I’ll reply.

Many thanks go to each of you who have taken the time to tell me your stories about Hubert Lewis, his art and his family. Thank you to everyone who shared art with me to put into the book.

To purchase a copy please follow this link https://www.createspace.com/4325598

It is also available at amazon.com for Kindle, but due to many pictures, I recommend book form.