Signed
Crayon, pencil and watercolour
11 3/4 x 17 in.; (30 x 43 cms).
Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010., cat no.13
This composition, intended as a study for a larger work, was inspired by the Fun Fair which came to Newport twice yearly. Stanley recalled that he frequently took his sketch book to 'capture the excitement, the movement, the hurley-burley music-the happiness of people escaping from reality'. Some of the character studies were made at Portobello Road.
Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.80

Inscribed on the reverse Stanley Cornwell Lewis ARCA Principal Carmarthen School Orchard House Lwanstephan Carms.
oil on 'The Pelham' canvas board
12x16 in; (30.5 x 40.5 cm.)
Provenance: the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: Exhibition of Paintings, Monmouth County Council, (Welsh Arts Council), November 1952, as Baldwins Steelworks, Panteg, Monmouthsire (no. 59); The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.41
This painting depicts Alcan Steel Works based in Rogerstone, Newport, Monmouthshire, near Stanley's home. During the war it produced 90% of the aluminum needed for the construction of Aluminum clad aircraft such as Spitfires.
Stanley Lewis painted the steel works from a nearby hill, where, watching the smoke drifting with the wind, he was 'mesmerizedmesmerised and compelled to paint it'. The steelworks were demolished in 2009.
Signed, Oil on canvas,
36 x 22 in. (92 x 56 cm)
Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: Royal Academy 1955 (158); Arts Council of great Britain Welsh Committee, 4th Open Exhibition of Contemporary Welsh Painting and Sculpture 1957, National Museum of Wales Cardiff, (no. 5); The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.77
Stanley was fascinated by Flemish 17th century painting, especially Rembrandt and Jan Steen, and visited Holland several times.
The joint of ham in this painting was Sally, a family pet pig, who ran riot around the one acre garden at Orchard House in Llanstephan, until she terrorized and bit Mr Rice the Postman and had to be slaughtered.
The composition - a dresser in the corner of the huge farmhouse kitchen at Orchard House - was painted at the suggestion of Min – “The vast Welsh dresser was so big it must have been constructed for the house in the room. It was colossal. Walking and observing it I thought, "yes Min is right, it would make a good picture" and so I bought my first canvas and it was the first painting I did at Orchard House.‘. I placed Jennifer's beloved black doll, Sambo, on the old Welsh settle and placed the Staffordshire dog, which I still own, near the dish of eggs that came from my own flock of chickens. I was so amused when I saw it at the Royal Academy and saw Sally our wonderful pig next to the Queen's official portrait. I must say I thoroughly enjoyed painting this picture and felt free again, far better than stripping old wallpaper and plaster patching and painting Orchard house's enormous rooms.



Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.57
Lewis served throughout the war as a gunner in the Royal Artillery.When he was off duty he made hundreds of drawings and paintings of army life: I went to so many army camps. I can’t remember which one this is – I had a bit of board one day and did not know what to do with it. I enjoyed the war – plenty of exercise; gave me the opportunity to paint. How many (sketches) I did I really don’t know. It kept me going. I remember when I joined I was always sketching – one of my army colleagues said you’d better give that stuff up until the war’s over. Don’t be so bloody silly, I said. I’m an artist (conversation with Paul Liss,May 2008).
Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.50
Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.32

Signed
Pencil with white and green chalk highlights, squared
50 1/4 x 93 3/4 in. (127 x 238 cm.).
Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.24

Writing a testimonial for Stanley , in the year this was created, Randolph Schwabe, Master of Drawing at the Royal College of Art commented:
Mr Lewis is an able draughtsman and has undertaken large and ambitious figure paintings with much interest in the composition of them. His work is entirely sincere and straightforward.... (11th July 1930).
A review of the 1930 Scholarship finalists (undated newspaper cutting) noted that the cartoon was "much more successful than the finished painting".
Provenance: from the artist's own collection until 2003; Michael Lewis the artist's son until 2008.
Exhibited: Imperial Gallery of Art, Imperial Institute South Kensington, Exhibition of Works Submitted in the Competitions for the Rome Scholarships of 1932 in Mural Painting, Sculpture & Engraving, January-February 1932. The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.25
Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.40
Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.31

Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.51

Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.15
Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.27

Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.37