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WILLIAM LAWRENCE COMPTON KOLAWOLE (1931 - )
Red,White and Black
.
Oil on canvas, 1968. 457x356 mm; 18x14 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left.
Provenance: private collection.
Kolawole lived in Munich in the 1960s before returning to the U.S. His work has been included in
a number of museum exhibitions, including
Afro American Artists Abroad
, National Collection of
Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, and the monograph
Black Artists on Art Vol. 1
by Samella Lewis
and RuthWaddy in 1969. More recently, he was included in the 2006 abstract survey
Something to
Look ForwardTo
, organized by painter Bill Hutson, which traveled to the California African American
Museum and the Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, and group exhibitions at Wilmer Jennings
Gallery at Kenkeleba House, NewYork.
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