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LEONARD JENKINS Untitled (Marching Band).
Mixed media on cardstock, circa 2002. 510x405 mm; 20x16 inches. Initialed in ink, lower right recto. Signed in ink, verso. Study for If Only I had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong by Roxanne Orgill.
Provenance: the artist; private New Jersey collection.
New York City artist and illustrator Leonard Jenkins received his B.F.A. from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He illustrated numerous recent children's books, many on African-American subjects, including Langston's Train Ride by Robert Burleigh, Sweet Land of Liberty by Deborah Hopkinson, Sunflower Island by Carol Greene, I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, A Fire Burning Brightly by Walter Dean Myers. He teaches painting at the School of Visual Arts, New York.
