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DAMBALLAH DOLPHUS SMITH (1943-1992)
Untitled. Ink, crayon and mixed media on paper. 406x304 mm; 15⅓x11⅓ inches. Signed in ink, lower left recto. Circa 1974.
Provenance: commission by the artist, private collection; private collection, California (2018).
Damballah Dolphus Smith was a Washington-based artist who studied at the Philadelphia College of Art. His works have been shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions, including the National Exhibition of Contemporary African American Art in Atlanta (1988).
His work has been collected by a number of institutions such as the Philadelphia Afro-American Museum of History and Culture, the US Information Agency, the African American Scholars Council, and numerous private collections. His works have also been published in "Black Artists on Art", Art Papers, and "Selected Essays: Art from the Harlem Renaissance to the 1980s. Smith passed from died of HIV/AIDS related complications in 1992.
