ALBERT ALEXANDER SMITH (1896 - 1940) The Wrestlers.
Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1927. 254x152 mm; 10x6 inches, trimmed at or just inside the stone. Signed and numbered 5/50 in ink, lower left.
Provenance Albert Alexander Smith. Alfred Renforth Smith, father of the artist (1940s). Reverend Frederick Rickford Meyers, Detroit, MI (1950s). Private collection, Michigan (2023).
This scarce lithograph is part of an incredible trove of artworks by Albert Alexander Smith recently discovered in a 1920s large steamer trunk. It belonged to his father Alfred R. Smith who worked as his son's agent in New York. In the 1950s, Alfred Smith shipped this trunk to the Rev. Frederick R. Meyers of Detroit, a fellow World War I veteran and friend of Albert Alexander Smith who had become a minister. The undisturbed trunk was recently purchased from a storage facility and unpacked for the first time seventy years later.
