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Digital Archive Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980
Art Samella Lewis, Portrait of Marie
Portrait of Marie, by Samella Lewis, c.1950

Samella Lewis, Artist
Portrait of Marie , c. 1950

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 x 12 in. (45.7 x 30.5 cm) approx.
Credit Line
Collection of Marie Johnson Calloway, Oakland. Photo by Ed Glendinning

Portrait of Marie is an early oil painting that Lewis created as a classroom exercise at Morgan State College. It depicts one of her students, Marie Johnson (later Marie Johnson Calloway), who would become an artist in her own right, one whose work is included in Now Dig This!