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JAMES A. PORTER (1905 - 1970) Bronze Figure.
Color pastel and charcoal on tan wove paper, circa 1931. 559x711 mm; 22x28 inches. Signed in charcoal, lower right.
Provenance: the artist; Dorthy Porter Walker; Constance Porter Uzelac, thence by descent to the current owner.
Exhibited: American Water Color Society, Fine Arts Building, New York City, 1931; Exhibit of a Small Group of Paintings, Howard University, February 1932; 13th Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition and the 31st Miniature Exhibition, Pennslyvania Academy of Fine Arts, November 5 - December 11, 1932; James A. Porter: Artist and Art Historian; The Memory of a Legacy, Howard University Gallery of Art, October 15, 1992-February 9, 1993, with label on the frame back listing exhibition history.
Illustrated: Opportunity, 11:46 Fall 1933; James A. Porter, Artist and Art Historian: The Memory of the Legacy, Howard University, p. 133: James A. Porter, 1905 -1970, From Me to You: the Works of James A. Porter, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, p. 108.
This drawing is an early example of an academic African-American, female nude.
