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DANNY SIMMONS (1953 - ) Miles to Go B4 I Sleep.
Oil and graphite on cotton canvas, 2012. 1524x1829 mm; 60x72 inches. Signed, titled and dated in red ink, upper left verso.
Provenance: private collection.
This vibrant canvas by Danny Simmons epitomizes his bold and expressive abstraction. Simmons has shown extensively in museum and gallery exhibitions over the past 20 years. His paintings are found in many institutional collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, the United Nations, Montclair State Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, the Anacostia Museum, the Hampton University Museum and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Simmons was the co-founder of the Def Poetry Jam performance series and the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.
