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JEFF DONALDSON (1932 - 2004) Jazz Drummer.
Watercolor on wove paper, 1961. 546x381 mm; 21 1/2x15 inches. Signed and inscribed with the artist's address, "5319 Ellis, Chicago, IL. No. 7-3532" in ink, verso.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection, Illinois, thence by descent; private collection; Illinois.
Jeff Donaldson grew up in Pinebluff, AK, where he attended the University of Arkansas, establishing the university's fine arts program. He then moved to Chicago, where he earned an MFA at the Institute of Design of the Illinois Institute of Technology, and then a PhD in African and African American art history at Northwestern University. Donaldson became a key member of the Organization for Black American Culture, and helped organize the 1967 Wall of Respect mural. Donaldson was a founding member of AfriCOBRA in 1968, writing their 1970 manifesto Ten in Search of a Nation and helping define its aesthetic through his paintings and prints. After lecturing at Northwestern until 1970, Donaldson joined the faculty at Howard University, where he had a distinguished tenure as a professor and adminstrator over a thirty year career.
