Sale 2487 - African-American Fine Art, October 4, 2018

28 c WILLIAM H. JOHNSON (1901 -1970) On a John Brown Flight . Color screenprint and pochoir on tan wove paper, circa 1945. Approximately 406x610 mm; 15 3 / 4 x24 inches. Signed in ink, lower right. Provenance: Annie Davis, New York and Savannah, GA; gifted to a private collection, Savannah, GA. Inscribed with the artist’s name, title, and a Harmon Foundation inventory number in ink, upper right verso. On a John Brown Flight is a very scarce example of an important print. While living in New York in the early 1940s, William H. Johnson printed a handful of proof impressions from his screenprints, depicting colorful images of both the rural South and of Harlem. Out of the 17