Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 136

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(ART.) THRASH, DOX. Untitled theatrical illustration. Watercolor, 11 x 9-7/8 (image size) 11-3/4 x 11-1/8 sheet size; signed in the lower right corner. Matted and framed, Np, circa 1925

Additional Details

Dox Thrash (1893-1965) born in Griffin, Georgia, on March 22, 1893, was the second of four children. Thrash left home at the age of fifteen, part of the Great Migration looking for work in the North. The first job that Thrash got was working with a circus and a Vaudeville act. Three years later, he moved to Chicago, a town that was opening its mind to Black artists. He got a job as an elevator operator during the day, and used this source of income to attend the Art Institute of Chicago at night.