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JOSEPH HOLSTON (1944 - ) Girl with View-Master.
Oil on canvas, 1973. 762x609 mm; 30x24 inches. Signed and dated in oil, upper right recto. Inscribed "12/73, Log No 053" in pencil on the stretcher bar.
Provenance: Mr. Louis Allan Ford, Washington, DC.
A Washington, DC native, Joseph Holston is a figurative painter, printmaker, and illustrator. He studied art independently by enrolling in art classes throughout the Washington, DC area, including lessons with the portraitist Marcos Blahove (1928 - 2012). Girl with View-Master depicts a young subject that Holston portrayed in other works in the 1970s such as Girl-n-Flute. Holston's 1970s works show the influence of Rembrandt and his study of the European Old Masters.
Holston's artwork was featured in the group exhibition Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century, The Phillips Collection, March 6 - September 12, 2021. His works are in many museum collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, Howard University, the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
