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(ART.) JONES, LOIS MAILOU.
Important Events and Dates in Negro
History.
Illustrated chart, 24 x 17inches with a large lino-cut across the top of the chart
and the entire text within an elaborate border.
Washington: Associated Publishers for The Association for the
Study of Negro Life and History, 1937
[800/1,200]
This wonderful chart was meant to go with the “Handbook for the Study of the Negro.” The
artwork was done by Lois Mailou Jones, who often illustrated works published by Carter G.
Woodson’s Associated Publishers.
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(ART—OUTSIDER ART.) SPELLER, HENRY.
Three untitled works.
Colored crayon done on the reverse of three posters for wrestling events, 14 x 22 inches
each.
[1,000/1,500]
Henry Speller (1900-1997), was born in the Central Mississippi Delta region. He dropped
out of school at twelve and began working on the local farms. He taught himself to draw, but
was also a talented guitar player and noted blues man playing with such notables as Howlin’
Wolf and Muddy Waters. His drawing are drawn from his surroundings and are generally
formed from pencil sketches that he would fill in with colored crayon. Speller is hung in the
Outsider collections at the High Museum of Atlanta and the Smithsonian.
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(ART.) WARREN, WILBERT “ALI MASOOD.”
Group of three sketch-
books.
Uniform cloth-backed boards; approximately 50 leaves to each book with virtually
all pages covered with pen and brush ink drawings; two of the three sketchbooks in good
shape, the binding of the third shaken; contents of all three clean.
SHOULD BE SEEN
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Vp, circa 1950’s
[3,000/4,000]
Most of the work in these sketchbooks reflects Warren’s time in the Army in the 1950’s, with
drawings of fellow soldiers, officers etc, with some very humorous caricaturing. The artist is well
represented in several institutions, including Yale’s Beineke Library. One of the sketchbooks is
titled “Fine Arts BEA,” another “Sketches from Life ‘55.” The third, rather shaken has no title.
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