Artist: John Wilson (American, 1922-2015).
Title: "La Calle".
Medium: Original color lithograph.
Date: Composed 1951. Printed 1965.
Dimensions: Overall size: 6 x 8 3/16 in. (152 x 208 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Edition unknown, presumed small (the original edition was 22). Light cream wove paper. Ample margins. Fine impression. Fine condition. Comment(s): The original edition of this lithograph was printed by Wilson in Mexico City in 1951. In 1965 he authorized and supervised a second edition in a reduced format, of which our example is part. An impression of the original edition sold for $6,000 at Swann Auction Galleries, New York City, December 15, 2015, lot #39. John Woodrow Wilson was an African-American artist who initially studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1950, he received a John Hay Whitney scholarship, enabling him to move to Mexico, where he spent the next six years. While there, he enrolled in La Esmeralda School in Mexico City to study mural painting, like Charles White and Elizabeth Catlett before him. In Mexico he also completed a small group of lithographs depicting Mexican manual laborers working in the streets, of which “La Calle” is one. Image copyright © The Estate of John Woodrow Wilson. [21812-1-600] |
