Charcoal and Chalk Pastel Self Portrait by Jack Lewis. Unframed on a Heavy Textured Paper. Measuring 11" x 13 3/4" Signed Lower Right.
Bio: John Iowa Lewis II (Jack Lewis) was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1912 and resides in York, Maine. He was named after his paternal grandfather and has written that he cannot account for the "Iowa" part of that ancestor's name. Though he painted extensively outside Delaware, he is heralded throughout Delaware as one of its most celebrated artists. He remained in Delaware for many decades, living for forty years at Bridgeville. Jack painted many watercolor scenes of the beach town of Lewes (pronounced like the artist's name), and other southern Delaware towns and cities. Jack's works have been primarily in the watercolor medium, though in the '40s he created a few serigraphs. Some or all of those became mixed-media paintings when Lewis liberally applied watercolor highlights over their surfaces. (He had pulled them in New York for a failed publishing project.) 
Artist Jack Lewis died August 22, 2012. He was within a few days of his 100th birthday. He had lived his last 14 years in York, Maine where his daughters and grandchildren lived, and that is where he died.