LEWIS, Stanley (1930-2006)

Stanley Lewis attended the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ School of Art and Design. He also studied at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; the marble studio of Florentine master Maestro V. Gambacciani in Italy; and the Ein Hod Artists’ Village in Israel. Beginning in the 1950s, his typically schematized stone sculptures as well as his prints (another medium for which he was well known) were exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. Lewis was head of the sculpture department at the Saidye Bronfman Centre School of Fine Arts and taught at both the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and McGill University. In the early 1960s, he was one of the founding members of the Association des sculpteurs du Québec (Quebec Sculptors Association), which became the Conseil de la sculpture du Québec in 1978.