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JOHN WHITMORE (1948 - ) Sleep.
Oil on cotton canvas, 1970. 279x305 mm; 11x12 inches. Signed, titled and dated in oil, verso.
Provenance: private collection, New York.
John Whitmore was an early member and teacher at the Studio Watts Workshop, Los Angeles, founded by James Woods and Guy Miller in 1964. Whitmore also showed at the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles in 1975 where he was a student of Charles White. His figurative artwork was in the collection of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company collection, and is now in the collection of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.
