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

34 c ARTHUR ROSE (1921 - 1995) The Port of Charleston . Oil on masonite board, 1969. 508x864 mm; 20x34 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago. Born in Charleston, SC, Arthur Rose Sr. was a painter, sculptor, professor and influential leader in the arts of HBCUs and South Carolina. After serving in the Navy during World War II, Rose graduated cum laude from Claflin University in 1950, becoming just the second student in the school’s history to earn a degree in art. Thereafter, Rose attended NewYork University and studied under several note artists, including Hale Woodruff, earning his Master’s Degree in 1952. That year Rose returned to Claf lin, founding the school’s Department of Art, and beginning a thirty-one year tenure, including holding the department’s Chair, through 1976. In 1977, Rose took an eight-year leave of absence during which he was artist-in-residence at Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina, before returning to Claf lin as an associate professor of art. One of his students, artist Leo Twiggs went on to establish the visual art program and museum at South Carolina State College; Twiggs refers to Rose as “the Dean of Black Arts in South Carolina.” In 2005, Claf lin University renamed their museum after Arthur Rose. His paintings have been included in numerous museum exhibitions, and are found in the Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, SC, and the collection of the South Carolina State Museum. [1,000/1,500]