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CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977) Walking.
Gouache, ink and color pastels on thin vellum, circa 1958. 229x400 mm; 9x15 3/4 inches. With the artist's estate signature ink stamp, lower left.
Provenance: the artist's estate; Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, with the gallery label on the frame back.
Illustrated: Alvia J. Wardlaw. Charles Alston, Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2007, p. 79.
This is one of several colorful studies on paper in various media that Charles Alston made for his 1958 oil painting Walking, which was inspired by the marches during the Civil Rights movement. The painting is now in the collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
