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HERMAN "KOFI" BAILEY (1931 - 1981) Ruby Dee.
Charcoal, sepia ink wash and graphite on cream illustration board, 1968. 762x610 mm; 16x15 1/2 inches (sheet). Signed in ink, lower left, and signed in ink, lower margin.
Provenance: the estate of Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn, Los Angeles, CA. Naomi Caryl (1931 - 2022) was a singer, actress, artist and a longtime collector and patron of the arts in Los Angeles. She was the daughter of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, the financier, philanthropist, and collector of modern art whose gift to the nation of nearly 6,000 works of art established his namesake museum on the National Mall. She also was a longtime friend of Joan Wheeler Ankrum, the founder of the Ankrum Gallery in Los Angeles, whose gallery exhibited many African American artists.
Exhibited: Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, on loan from the Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles March 31 - April 29, 1973, with the labels on the frame back.
