In 2021, Nancy and Russ Suniewick, longtime friends of Jack Lewis and executive producers of If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home Now: A Film About Jack Lewis and Bridgeville, DE, generously donated to the Rehoboth Art League an outstanding collection of 52 paintings and various documents of the late artist. The range of work from this collection dates from the circa-1930s to the 1980s and includes portraits, domestic and foreign scenes and a self-portrait.
Born in Baltimore, Jack Lewis received a degree in art from Rutgers University in 1935. He arrived in Delaware in the late 1930s and was part of the Works Project Administration’s Civilian Conservation Corps. He first served as a painter in Leipsic and then, briefly, in Lewes, where he recorded, through his art, the activities of men working on mosquito control on the Delmarva Peninsula. His artwork debuted in 1936 at the V.I.A.Summer Art Exhibition, where he continued to exhibit for many years.