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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HAYWOOD "BILL" RIVERS (1922 - 2002) The Little Patch.
Oil on canvas, 1971. 407x407 mm; 16x16 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left recto. Signed, titled and dated in oil, verso.
Provenance: private New Jersey collection.
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This small canvas is a wonderful example of the artist's mid-career abstraction and the influence of his childhood quilt-making. Born in rural Norven, NC, Haywood "Bill" Rivers left his family as a young teen and moved to Baltimore, MD. He later moved to New York and studied at the Art Students League from 1946-48, and then at the École du Louvre in Paris from 1950-52. Rivers went on to receive many awards for his work - including the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1948, and the Jay Hay Whitney Fellowship in 1952. Rivers exhibited a similar painting, Eclipses, the year before at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Boston. His two solo exhibitions - in 1942, at the Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, and in 1983 at the Ann Weber Gallery in Georgetown, ME - bookend a long, distinguished career. His works are found today in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art and Le Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris.
