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

57 c JAMES A. PORTER (1905 - 1970) African Venus . Oil on paper, 1963. 787x432 mm; 31x17 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: the artist; Dorothy Porter Walker; Constance Porter Uzelac, thence by descent to the current owner. Exhibited: 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 traveled and lived in West Africa, Nigeria and Egypt to gather materials for a projected book on West African art and architecture. [7,000/10,000]