Samuel Lewis Shane

Samuel Lewis Shane (14 April 1900 – 14 October 1993) was a modern American painter whose works span a period from the early 1920s to shortly before his death in 1993. Beginning in 1920, he studied under John French Sloan of the Ashcan School at the Art Students League in New York City. His classmates, including John Graham, Stuart Davis and Alexander Calder would have important influences on his career. In 1927, he went to Paris with Graham, Davis, and Calder and they worked with some of the most renowned European painters of the time. In particular, he was befriended by Fernand Léger with whom he lived and shared a studio. Man Ray photographed him along with many of the other artists of the time. Upon their return to the United States, Graham, Davis, Shane, and others would evolve an abstract expressionist style that came to be known as the New York School. Shane exhibited with the Independent Artists in NYC, was a member of the art colony in Provincetown and continued to paint as a lifetime member of the Art Students League.