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PALMER HAYDEN (1890 - 1973)
The Blue Nile
.
Watercolor and gouache on thick wove paper, 1964. 546x673 mm; 21
1
/
2
x26
1
/
2
inches. Signed and
dated in watercolor, lower right.
Provenance: the artist’s wife, Miriam A. Hayden; Camille Billops, NewYork.
Exhibited:
Two Centuries of Black American Art
, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 30
- November 21, 1976, (traveling exhibition to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Museum of
Fine Arts, Dallas, and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn).
Illustrated: Bearden, Romare and Harry B. Henderson, Jr.,
A History of African-American Artists
, pl.
xxvi;
The African American Review
. Department of English, Indiana State University, 1992, front cover.