ABSTRACT
Lewis thought that he received less material benefits than anyone else he knew. He insisted that he had always wasted eighty percent of his time in London trying to earn sufficient money to free him for serious work. In Toronto he spent nearly all his time attempting to raise money and to find employment—in Canada, America and England—as a painter of portraits or war factories, resident artist, art teacher, museum director, author, translator, journalist, propagandist, editor, broadcaster, lecturer, professor or administrator. In the fall semester of 1943, Lewis repeated his philosophy of literature course and also lectured on the “ABC of the Visual Arts.” Lewis returned to Windsor for the last time in December 1944 to await the end of the War. Lewis lived in St. Louis from February to July 1944 at the Park Plaza and Coronada Hotels, and in the flat of the Giovanellis.
