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SMITH, WILLIAM E.
Pay Day.
Linocut, 8 x 5
7
⁄
8
inches, fine strong impression
with wide margins, 10
1
⁄
4
x 8
1
⁄
2
overall; initialed by the artist, and marked “AP” in the left
lower margin.
Np, circa 1941
[2,500/3,500]
William E. Smith (1913-1997), an American artist is known for his graphic work. He has been
exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is represented in numerous other institutions.
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WARREN, MASOOD ALI WILBERT.
“Life Sketches,” group of three
sketchbooks.
Uniform cloth, approximately 50 leaves per volume, with virtually all the
pages covered with sketches in pencil and sepia crayon.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Vp, 1938; 1940
[3,000/4,000]
Warren (1907-1995) attended the Art Students League in New York and earned a Bachelor of Fine
Arts in mural painting from New York University in 1939. He is well-represented in American
institutions. His sketchbooks are rich with images of everyday African Americans.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) WEEMS, CARRIE MAE.
Commemorating Every Black
Man Who Lives to See Twenty-One.
Lenox porcelain plate, 10
1
⁄
2
inches in diameter,
with caption in the center; gilt edges.
ONE OF AN EDITION OF
100.
Np, circa 1992
[1,500/2,500]
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REFERENCE. HARMON FOUNDATION.
Exhibition of Negro Artists,
for the years, 1931, 1933 and 1935.
Illustrated throughout. Uniform small 8vo’s, origi-
nal pictorial wrappers, stapled; aside from some slight discoloration to the cover of the
1933 volume, in very good condition.
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST EDITIONS
.
William Elmer Harmon, real estate magnate, began recognizing the accomplish-
ments of African American artists after an encounter with a young black man who could not sell his
work because of his color. Harmon not only helped him, he began to give awards to African Americans
for excellence in art, and literature around 1925. Catalogues such as these were the outcome of con-
tests held each year from 1928 through 1935. Artists included in these catalogues: Richmond Barthe,
Allan Freelon, Meta Warrick Fuller, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson,
Lois Mailou Jones, Archibald Motley, Richard Bruce Nugent, Augusta Savage, Laura Wheeler
Waring, and Hale Woodruff.
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