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DELILAH WILLIAMS PIERCE (1904 - 1992) Fishing Boats.
Oil on linen canvas, circa 1960. 508x610 mm; 20x24 inches. Signed, titled and inscribed "1612 Webster St.,. N.W." in pencil, verso.
Provenance: private Washington, DC collection.
Delilah Pierce emerged as a pioneering abstract painter and part of the Washington, DC school of color field painting in the late 1950s. Born in Washington, DC, she received her bachelor's degree from Howard University, where she studied under Loïs Mailou Jones and James Lesesne Wells, and a master's degree from Columbia University. Active as both an artist and art educator, she exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Barnett-Aden Gallery in Washington, DC through the late 1960s. Her paintings were included in the Barnett-Aden and the Evan-Tibbs collections, and are found today at Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia.
