Pencil and brush and gray wash with white heightening on paper. 180x355 mm; 7x14 inches. Signed in pen and black ink, lower right recto.
Cadmus, along with Jared French, was commissioned to create a mural for a parcel post building in Richmond, Virginia. This current lot is a study for one of his original ideas for the mural, which was ultimately rejected on the grounds that it was too controversial.
Exhibited "In the Face of Abstraction," The Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York, August 20-November 4, 1998, no.16.
Sold Christie's, New York, September 28, 1983, lot 60; Forbes Collection, New York.
