ALBERT ALEXANDER SMITH (1896 - 1940) A Street in Rome.
Etching on cream wove paper, 1923. 235x159 mm; 9 1/4x6 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower margin. Titled and numbered 29/50 in ink, lower margin.
Illustrated: Leininger-Miller, Theresa. New Negro Artists in Paris, p. 216, fig. 101.
Albert Alexander Smith, a talented musician and artist, moved to Paris in 1920 after graduating from the National Academy of Design in New York. Smith was one of the few known African-American printmakers working in the early 1920s. Leininger-Miller p. 210.
