Sale 2472 - African-American Fine Art, April 5, 2018

26 c THELMA JOHNSON STREAT (1911 - 1959) Untitled (Abstract Chapel Flower) . Gouache and pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1941-42. 305x178 mm; 12x7 inches. Signed in pencil, lower margin. Provenance: the estate of the artist, Oregon. In 1942, Thelma Johnson Streat’s similar small gouache Rabbit Man , 1941, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art - their first acquisition of a work by an African-American woman. [1,500/2,500]