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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JOSÉ J. WILLIAMS (1934 - ) Girl on a Swing.
Color screenprint on linen canvas, 1976. 914x711 mm; 36x28 inches. Intitaled in ink, lower left.
Provenance: the collection of the artist, Chicago. This print is a unique work, according to the family of the artist, and was never editioned.
Born in Birmingham, AL, painter, printmaker, musician, textile artist and designer José Williams earned his BA in printmaking from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his MS in Visual Design from the Illinois Institute of Design in Chicago. Williams taught art at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; Southeast Community College, and the Dante School in Chicago. He ran the AFAM Gallery and served as director of the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago in the early 1970s. His work was been featured in numerous group exhibitions through the 1980s including Atlanta University, the South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, AFAM Gallery, Chicago and the ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA. Zorach/Baker pp. 68, 259.
This is only the second artwork by the artist to come to auction; Swann Galleries sold the artist's screenprint collage 63rd Streeet in the auction African American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company on January 30, 2020.
