Oct 08, 2019 - Sale 2518

Sale 2518 - Lot 161

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
COLUMBUS KNOX (1923 - 1999)
Oyster Fisherman.

Acrylic on linen canvas, circa 1996. 762x610 mm; 30x24 inches. Signed in acrylic, lower right.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, Pennsylvania.

Columbus Knox's work has been included in exhibitions at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, African-American Museum of Philadelphia, the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, the University of Pennsylvania and the Free Library of Philadelphia. Through his affiliation with the Minority Resource Arts Council and as the former art director for The West Philadelphia Art Alliance's Celebrating Art, Knox provided inspiration for young emerging artists and for people who may have had limited exposure to art galleries and museums.