Percy Wyndham Lewis is born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Vorticism is established.  Lewis publishes the Vorticist magazine, Blast in June.

Publishes the second and final issue of Blast (a war issue.)

War service in the Royal Artillery.  In 1917, Lewis was appointed as an official war artist for British and Canadian governments.

Publishes his first novel, Tarr which receives favourable reviews from the likes of Rebecca West and T. S. Eliot.  Lewis meets Gladys Hoskins (Froanna), his future wife.

Lives with Iris Barry, who gave birth to two children during this time.

Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro

Portrait of the Artist as the Painter Raphael.

James Joyce

Publishes the arts magazine The Tyro and holds the ‘Tyros and Portraits’ exhibition, which included the paintings Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro and Portrait of the Artist as the Painter Raphael.

Mrs Schiff

Publishes The Apes of God.  Marries Froanna.

Publishes Hitler, a political book which presented Hitler as a ‘man of peace.’

Self Portrait

Holds ‘Thirty Personalities’ exhibition, which included portraits of G. K. Chesterton, Wing- Commander Orlebar and Rebecca West.

Rebecca West

Resumes painting in oils, following a 10 year break.

Edith Sitwell

Completes Edith Sitwell, which was begun in 1921 and abandoned.

Froanna, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife

Publishes The Revenge for Love, a novel about the events preceding the Spanish Civil War, and Blasting and Bombardiering, an autobiography.

Red Portrait

T. S. Eliot

Lewis’s portrait of T. S. Eliot is rejected by the Royal Academy for its annual exhibition in April.

Stephen Spender

Ezra Pound

Publishes The Jews: Are they Human? an attack on anti-Semitism.  Leaves with his wife for North America.  Lewis paints his only commissioned official portrait which is of Chancellor Samuel Capen.  Publishes The Hitler Cult, retracting his former views on the German dictator.

Chancellor Samuel Capen

Notices serious deterioration in his eyesight.

Returns with his wife to England.

Employed as art-critic for The Listener but announces his blindness and resigns in 1951.