Sale 2528 - African-American Fine Art, January 30, 2020

by the painter George E. Neal. The artists group, including Margaret Burroughs, Eldzier Cortor, Charles Davis, Charles Sebree and Charles White, met in Neal’s coach house studio at 32nd and Michigan Avenues. Establishing himself as distinguished sculptor in the early 1940s, Kersey was included in several important exhibitions, including Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) at the Tanner Galleries, the inaugural exhibition of the South Side Community Art Center, both in Chicago in 1940, and the 1942 Downtown Gallery exhibition American Negro Art, 19th and 20th Centuries in New York. James A. Porter noted Kersey’s long career in his inf luential history Modern Negro Art . Today his sculpture is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Barnett-Aden Collection. [3,000/5,000]