The WWII Works of Neville Lewis (South Africa Official War Artist)

S A Museum of Military History. 1984,softcover, landscape format, illustrated, English/Afrikaans text, unpaginated with sixty-six thumbnail portrait pictures of leading SA Military figures.. condition: basically: as new.

The artist was the first of eight official artists to be appointed by the SA Department  of Defence to concentrate on portraits of military personalities.

During World War II Lewis produced portraits in oil. He frequently painted and drew black South Africans. Lewis painted three portraits of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery. He also painted several persons actively involved in the war effort ranging from a member of the South African Native Military Corps to a nurse. Several of these images were used for postage stamps during the war.

          The painting Portrait of Albert van der Sandt Centlivres  by Lewis was burned by demonstrators during the Rhodes Must Fall upheaval at the University of Cape Town in February 2016.