found: Tahquitz, 1996:cover (Lewis deSoto) p. 4 (b. 1954)
found: Personal communication with 20th cent. art curator, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Deborah Scott, 08/28/96(deSoto, Lewis; she mentioned this is the preference of the form of the artist's name)
found: RLIN, Oct. 29, 1996(hdg.: DeSoto, Lewis, 1954-; De Soto, Lewis, 1954-; usage: Lewis DeSoto; Lewis De Soto)
found: St. Louis Univ. WWW Home page, Feb. 7, 2003(Lewis deSoto; b. 1954; maintains studios in both San Francisco and New York; has had more than 35 solo exhibitions; has been in more than 40 group exhibitions; sculptor)
found: Photographs 1977-1979, 2004:bio (Lewis deSoto is a professor and head of the Photography program at San Francisco State University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. His work is in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The California Museum of Photography, The Los Angeles County Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego)