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(ART.) DOUGLASS, ROBERT.
Portrait of Joseph Parrish, aged about 10
(supplied title).
Cabinet photograph of a painting, with a long note on the reverse from
the subject of the painting.
Philadelphia, circa 1826 [1887]
[400/600]
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(ART.) HARDISON, INGE.
“Giants in History.” Six anodized plaster
busts of noted African Americans: Benjamin Banneker, Charles Richard Drew,
Norbert Rillieux, Garrett Morgan, Lewis Latimer, and Granville T. Woods.
Each
bust is more or less the same height, 6 x 8
1
⁄
2
inches; with a bronze finish surface; several of
the busts have nicks to their bases, one corner of the Norbert Rilieux seriously (about one
inch); the Drew bust has a 2 x 1 inch diagonal corner chip that has been re-glued; a couple
of the others with a slight abrasions. Overall these pieces are all in quite good condition,
but
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Tennessee: Old Taylor Distillers, circa 1970’s
[3,000/4,000]
The artist that created these busts is Inge Hardison (1914 - ), an accomplished sculptor,
painter, photographer and teacher. Ms. Hardison began this series she called “Giants in
History” in 1963, created for the Old Taylor Distillery Company in Tennessee; the series con-
tinued for almost a decade. She created these beautiful portrait busts of Americans who have
made significant contributions, but who were not as well-known as they should have been.
Among them: Charles Richard Drew (1904-1950), who developed blood plasma, saving
untold numbers of lives during WWII, Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), who helped survey
the land area that is now the District of Columbia; and Lewis Latimer (1848-1928), who
was responsible for many of the inventions credited to Thomas Edison. There are many, many
others in Hardison’s Giant’s Series of the “under-known,” all have become scarce.
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