Sale 2649 - Lot 109

HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)

Harriet Tubman.

Pencil on wove paper, circa 1980. 279x216 mm; 11x8 inches. Signed in pencil, lower left.

Provenance: the collection of the artist; estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection.

This drawing was a preparatory study for Hughie Lee-Smith's 1980 portrait painting Harriet Tubman commissioned by the Banneker-Douglas Museum, Annapolis, MD.