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CARL G. HILL (CIRCA 1920 - 1943) Newsboy.
Brush, pen and ink on buff laid paper, 1937. 406x305 mm; 16x12 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right.
Provenance: private New York collection.
This striking drawing is a study for the artist's best known work, his same-titled 1938 lithograph, which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Reba and Dave Williams. According to Lisa Collins's entry, Hill was a student of the lithographer Reva Helfond at the Harlem Community Art Centerin 1938. Hill tragically died at sea shortly after joining the U. S. Merchant Marines in 1942. Messinger p. 63.
