$10,000 toward an exhibition on the painter with accompanying catalogue, organized by guest curator Valerie Leeds. Lewandowski was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended the Layton School of Art where he ultimately became director. After pursuing his career as a muralist in New York under the Federal Arts Project, he became a precisionist painter who, through the use of simple line, pure color and bold shapes, abstracted scenes and objects of the industrial and mechanical world.