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(ART—FOLK ART.) WALKER, INEZ.
Untitled portrait of a black
woman.
10
1
/
2
x 13
3
/
4
inches. Crayon and pencil. Signed vertically in the left margin “Inez
Walker, 1975.”
[800/1,200]
Inez Nathaniel Walker was born into poverty in South Carolina in 1911. For most of her life she
worked as a farmhand. She began drawing while imprisoned for homicide in the late 1960’s, and her
work was championed by the prison’s English teacher. This example was done after her 1972 release.
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(ART.) WARING, LAURA WHEELER, & BETSY GRAVES REYNEAU.
Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin Painted by Two Women
Artists.
24 3 x 5 inch potographs of an array of notables enclosed in the original printed
envelope.
New York: Harmon Foundation, circa 1940’s
[400/600]
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