Lewis's path was a difficult one, but in many ways typical for American artists of his generation.

You could be the most famous artist of your generation.

Like many other artists of his generation, he is also active on the internet and social networks.

He has been praised as the best Chinese artist of his generation.

He occupies a unique position among the artists of his generation.

I decided he was the most important American artist of his generation.

He may be closest to the most independent artists of his generation.

'Few if any artists of his generation have so startled my eyes and mind,' he continued.

"He is a major artist of our generation," she said.

From the mid-1940s to the early 1950s he was considered one of the leading artists of his generation.