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COLUMBUS KNOX (1923 - 1999)
Pool Players.
Watercolor on mat board. 527x343 mm; 20
3
/
4
x13
1
/
2
inches, full margins. Signed in ink, lower left.
Provenance:The Hahn Gallery,Philadelphia,with the label on the frame back;private collection,Philadelphia.
Columbus Knox was a Philadelphia-based artist who earned a scholarship to the Philadelphia
Museum School of Industrial Art. However, his studies were interrupted when he was enlisted in
the military duringWWII. He became a painter and frequently exhibited at the annual Rittenhouse
Show while working as an art director in various government agencies. Knox’s work has also been
exhibited at the African American Museum, Philadelphia, the Free Library of Philadelphia and the
Federal Reserve.
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