(ART) Bernard Goss Portrait of Claude A Barnett founder of t

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(ART.) Bernard Goss. Portrait of Claude A. Barnett, founder of the Associated Negro Press. Ink and pencil on paper, 14 x 10 1/4 inches, signed in ink "B Goss '64"; spot-mounted to mat board on top edge, with caption on mat naming the sitter. No place, 1964

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Bernard Goss (1913-1966) was a prominent Black artist from Chicago, a founder of the South Side Community Art Center. His sitter Claude Albert Barnett (1889-1967) founded the Associate Negro Press in 1919, and did not retire until 1966. He traveled widely in Africa and was a committed opponent of segregation. His wife Etta Moten Barnett (see lots 283, 345, and 346) was a singer, actress, and civic leader.