Lewis Harry Emerson

and then attended the Chicago Art Institute where he remained to teach until his move to California in 1924. Lewis first settled in Hollywood, and then ventured north to San Francisco in 1931. His home was across the bay (before the Bay had bridges) in the Marin County town of Corte Madera, and he was quite active in the Bay Area Art community. In 1945, he moved back south to Laguna Beach.

He is best known for his watercolor landscapes, but also produced fine works in oil. He was a member of the San Francisco Art Association; Bay Region Art Association; Palette & Chisel Club, Chicago; Western Art Association; Society for Sanity in Art; Los Angeles Art Association; Oakland Art Association; and Santa Cruz Art Association. He held numerous and widespread exhibitions of his work, from the Palace of Legion of Honor in 1939, to the Beaux Arts in Paris. Source: Artists in California 1786 - 1940, Edan Milton Hughes, 3d ed.

Harry Emerson Lewis 1892 - 1958	Shaver's Well	Bodega Bay	Coast with trees
Harry Emerson Lewis, born in Kansas in 1892, grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and studied art at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois from 1912 - 1913. During World War I, he used his art training and served as an instructor in camouflage. After the war, he remained in Europe to study art at Florence, Milan, and at the Sorbonne in Paris. When he returned to the United States, he worked at the studio of Alexander Robinson in Boston
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and then attended the Chicago Art Institute where he remained to teach until his move to California in 1924. Lewis first settled in Hollywood, and then ventured north to San Francisco in 1931. His home was across the bay (before the Bay had bridges) in the Marin County town of Corte Madera, and he was quite active in the Bay Area Art community. In 1945, he moved back south to Laguna Beach. He is best known for his watercolor landscapes, but also produced fine works in oil. He was a member of the San Francisco Art Association; Bay Region Art Association; Palette & Chisel Club, Chicago; Western Art Association; Society for Sanity in Art; Los Angeles Art Association; Oakland Art Association; and Santa Cruz Art Association. He held numerous and widespread exhibitions of his work, from the Palace of Legion of Honor in 1939, to the Beaux Arts in Paris. Source: Artists in California 1786 - 1940, Edan Milton Hughes, 3d ed.