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COLUMBUS KNOX (1923 - 1999) Pool Players.
Watercolor on thick wove paper. 527x343 mm; 20 3/4x13 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed in ink, lower left.
Provenance: The Hahn Gallery, Philadelphia, with the label on the frame back; private collection, Philadelphia.
Columbus Knox was a Philadelphia-based artist who earned a scholarship to the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. However, his studies were interrupted when he was enlisted in the military during WWII. He became a painter and frequently exhibited at the annual Rittenhouse show while working as an art director in various government agencies. Knox's work has also been exhibited at the African American Museum, Philadelphia, the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Federal Reserve.
