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CLIFFORD JACKSON (1927 - ) Untitled (Abstract Composition).
Oil on canvas, 1962. 460x545 mm; 18x21 1/2 inches. Dated "1-6-62" in oil, lower left. Signed in ink, verso.
Provenance: Obro Art Gallery, Copenhagen; private collection. Inscribed "Bjors Holms gata #36," the artist's Stockholm address, in pencil on the stretcher bar.
Both a painter and jazz musician, Clifford Jackson established his career as an artist in Scandinavia with his abstract painting in the late 1950s and 1960s. Jackson studed at the Art Students League and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before being awarded a John Hay Whitney Fellowship in 1957. The artist moved to Stockholm, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Art. With fellow expatriate artists Herbert Gentry, Sam Middleton, Walter Williams and Hartwell Yeargans, Jackson's work was included in the 1964 exhibition 10 American Negro Artists Living and Working in Europe in Copenhagen, the 1969 exhibition Afro American Artists Abroad at the Smithsonian Institution and the 1983 An Ocean Apart: American Artists Abroad at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Today, his paintings are found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Sundsvall Museum, Sundsvall, Sweden, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
