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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ARTHUR ROLAND (1935 - 2019 ) The Conversation.
Oil on masonite board, 1974. 965x762 mm; 38x30 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right.
Provenance: private collection, New York.
Detroit-born painter and illustrator Arthur Roland grew up in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1930s and 40s, and later served in the Korean War. Roland studied art at Wayne State University and the Meinzinger School of the Art in Detroit. In 1974, he was listed in the directory of the Chicago Union of Black Artists, and by 1979, he was one of their elected officers. He later taught art at Wayne State Community College in Detroit. His artwork is found in the collections of the Arbor City Hall, the Archdiocese of Detroit, the Carnegie Institute, Howard University, the University of Southern Alabama, the Wayne County Comissioner's Office and many private collections. Swann Galleries sold the first painting of Arthur Roland at auction in our African American Art from Johnson Publishing Company auction on January 30, 2020.
