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JAMES A. PORTER (1905 - 1970)
Porteuse
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Oil on board, 1963-64. 635x355 mm; 25x14 inches. Signed and dated in crayon, lower right.
Provenance: the artist; Dorothy Porter Walker; Constance Porter Uzelac, thence by descent to the
current owner.
Exhibited:
James A. Porter, Retrospective Exhibition: Paintings of theYears 1954-1964
. Howard University
Gallery of Art, Washington DC, January 22 - February 26, 1965;
James A. Porter: Artist and Art
Historian;The Memory of The Legacy
. Howard University Gallery of Art,Washington, DC, October
15, 1992 - February 9, 1993.
In 1963-64, James Porter took a sabbatical leave from his chairmanship of the art department at
Howard University. He travelled and lived inWest Africa, Nigeria and Egypt to gather materials for
a projected book onWest African art and architecture.
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