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DELILAH WILLIAMS PIERCE (1904 - 1992) Untitled (Abstract Composition).
Oil on canvas, circa 1970. 914x711 mm; 36x28 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.
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 bachelors 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.
