MARIE JOHNSON-CALLOWAY (1920 - ) Nairobi, Queen of the Sixties.
Acrylic on canvas, 1968. 406x508 mm; 16x20 inches. Signed in acrylic, lower right recto. Signed, titled and inscribed "California" and "acrylic" in ink, upper left verso.
Provenance: collection of the artist; private collection.
Marie Johnson-Calloway is a California artist and professor known for her use of collage and mixed-media in large, constructed assemblages depicting everyday African Americans. In 1969, she became an assistant professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and San Jose State University. From 1973 to 1983, she was an associate professor in the art department at San Francisco State University. Her work is in the permanent collection of the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, and has been exhibited in museums and galleries nationally. Farrington p. 142.
