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CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977) Landscape.
CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977)
Landscape.
Watercolor over pencil on wove paper, 1935. 380x510 mm; 15x20 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: ex-collection the artist, New York; Kenkeleba House Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back.
Exhibited: Charles Alston, Artist and Teacher, Kenkeleba House Gallery, New York, 1990.
This important gallery exhibition was the artist's first major retrospective. In 1935, Alston became the first African-American WPA project supervisor, and was assigned to oversee the completion of the Harlem Hospital murals, two of which he painted himself.
Landscape.
Watercolor over pencil on wove paper, 1935. 380x510 mm; 15x20 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: ex-collection the artist, New York; Kenkeleba House Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back.
Exhibited: Charles Alston, Artist and Teacher, Kenkeleba House Gallery, New York, 1990.
This important gallery exhibition was the artist's first major retrospective. In 1935, Alston became the first African-American WPA project supervisor, and was assigned to oversee the completion of the Harlem Hospital murals, two of which he painted himself.
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