HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999) Frederick Douglass.
Graphite and pencil on wove paper, circa 1976. 432x356 mm; 17x14 inches (sheet). Signed in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: the collection of the artist; the estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection.
This drawing is a preparatory study for Hughie Lee-Smith's 1976 portrait painting Frederick Douglass, commissioned by the Banneker-Douglas Museum, Annapolis, MD.
