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JAMES A. PORTER (1905 - 1970) Fish Vendors at Bar Beach, Lagos.
Oil on canvas, 1964. 559x735 mm; 22x29 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Inscribed "J. A. Porter", titled and numbered #42 in ink, verso, and inscribed "Seafood Vendors" in pencil in ink verso.
Provenance: Ex-collection the artist; hence by descent to his daughter, Constance Porter-Uzelac.
Exhibitions: African Retrospective, Howard University, 1964; Afro-American Artists, 1800-1969, Municipal Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, 1969-1970; James A. Porter: Artist and Art Historian; The Memory of The Legacy, Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 15, 1992 - February 9, 1993; The Art of Harlem Renaissance Man James A. Porter, State Capitol Rotunda, Tallahassee, February 1 - March 17, 2005.
An oil from the artist's African period made in Nigeria during his 1963-64 study and tour of West Africa.
