Oct 03, 2024 - Sale 2680

Sale 2680 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998)
The Black Man in White America - Van Deusen.

Steel engraving plate, mounted on a wooden block, circa 1944. 540x546x22 mm; 10¼x21¼x⅞ inches.

Provenance: the James K. Hill collection.

This block was used to print Jones's illustration for the wrap-around dusk jacket of John C Van Deusen's book The Black Man in White America. This early study of the African American experience was published by the Associated Publishers of Washington, DC in 1944.