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SHIMIN, SYMEON. Jim Crow is His Enemy - America's Enemy - My Enemy. Oil on artist's board, picturing a young black boy with a pencil in one hand
SHIMIN, SYMEON. Jim Crow is His Enemy - America's Enemy - My Enemy. Oil on artist's board, picturing a young black boy with a pencil in one hand and the other resting on a book, 36x26 inches; Signed lower right. Np, circa 1948
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Notes: This painting served as a maquette for a poster used in Henry Wallace's 1948 presidential bid [cover lot in Swann Galleries' sale 1961 27 February 2003].
Shimin (1902-1984) was born in Astrakhan and came to the U.S. in 1912. He apprenticed to a commercial artist at 16 and studied at Cooper Union. Best known as the illustrator of more than a dozen titles by various writers. Black children are a recurrent theme in his work.
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