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176 ● (ART.) SIMON, JEWEL WOODARD. Posturing People. Silkscreen, 121 ⁄
2 x 18
inches, titled and signed in the lower blank margin; some slight discoloration to the left
blank margin. Atlanta, circa 1970’s [800/1,200]
177 ● (ART.) SIMON, JEWEL WOODARD. Forest scene (supplied title.)
Watercolor on cardboard, 91⁄2 x 10 inches; small diagonal crack at lower right corner (not
broken), matted. Atlanta, circa 1940’s [1,000/1,500]
AN EARLY WORK, SIGNED WITH HER MAIDEN NAME Jewel Woodard Simon (1911-
1996), was a painter, sculptor, printmaker and musician, born in Houston Texas, She moved to
Atlanta in 1939 where she made her home until her death. She was the first African
American to be awarded a bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Atlanta University, studying
under Hale Woodruff and Alice Dunbar at the University. She is cited in Cedric Dover’s
American Negro Art, and is well represented in the Hatch-Billops Collection at Emory
University. See Igoe, 250 Years of Afro-American Art, pages 1098-1099.
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