Oil on masonite board, 1952. 889x1219 mm; 35x48 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right.
Provenance: the estate of Constance E. Clayton, Philadelphia.
This vibrant cityscape is a scarce example of a large oil painting by this Philadelpha native artist. Ronald Ayers was born in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia and trained at the Philadelphia College of the Arts. Ayers was most active between 1968-75, when he was included in the controversial Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition Contemporary Black Artists in America in 1971, and had a solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1973. His artworks are included in the permanent collections of the African American Museum, Philadelphia, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels, the Philadelphia Free Library, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Woodmere Art Museum.
