Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 402
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BROWN, SAMUEL JOSEPH. (Boy and Girl) Color serigraph showing a young black boy and white girl in friendly conversation, ascending a staircase, 27x20 inches; Signed in the plate; with the copyright notice in the lower right corner. Np, [1946]

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Samuel Joseph Brown was born in Wilmington, NC in 1907. He studied at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art and taught in Philadelphia public schools for 35 years. He participated in the WPA from 1933-44 and his work was praised by Eleanor Roosevelt. This piece is from the "One World" project and shows the harmony which could exist in an integrated school.<