Watercolor over pencil on wove paper, 1935. 380x510 mm; 15x20 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: ex-collection the artist, New York; Kenkeleba House Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back.
Exhibited: Charles Alston, Artist and Teacher, Kenkeleba House Gallery, New York, 1990.
This important gallery exhibition was the artist's first major retrospective. In 1935, Alston became the first African-American WPA project supervisor, and was assigned to oversee the completion of the Harlem Hospital murals, two of which he painted himself.
