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CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977)
The Bridge
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Oil on linen canvas, circa 1950-53. 508x1270 mm; 20x50 inches. Signed in oil, upper left recto.
Signed and titled in oil, verso.
Provenance: private NewYork collection.
Exhibited: John Heller Gallery, NewYork; Jerald Melburg Gallery, Charlotte, with the labels on the
frame back.
The Bridge
is a scarce example of Charles Alston’s early modernist painting and his transition toward
abstraction. In 1950, Alston had become the first African-American instructor at the Art Students
League, and was included in the group exhibition
American Painting Today
at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. John Heller Gallery first represented Charles Alston in NewYork, and presented
his first one-man exhibition in the spring of 1953.
[20,000/30,000]
