?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LEV MILLS (1938 - 2021) I...
Color collagraph, relief and etching on cream wove paper, 1970-72. 682x482 mm; 27x19 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 3/25 in pencil, lower margin.
Another impression is in the collection of the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lev Mills uses layered images to create substantative meaning in I.... The culmination of a tumultuous period in American history and the systematic attack on the Black Panther movement are the geneses for Mills' print which present the issues to the viewer in an esoteric manner.
Born in Tallahassee, Florida, Lev Mills lived and worked in Atlanta, Georgia from 1973. Mills studied printmaking at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the late 1960s. He received his BA from Florida A&M University, his MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a postgraduate certificate from the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College - University of London. Mills' career had been split between being a working visual artist and an educator. He taught at Spelman College for thirty years, including fourteen years as the art department chair, before retiring in 2009. Several museums hold work by Mills including Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the British Museum, London, and MOCA Georgia.
