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ROSE PIPER (1917 - 2005) One of these mornings bright and fair goin' to take my wings and cleave the air.
Acrylic on masonite, 1988. 300x228 mm; 11 3/4x9 inches. Signed in acrylic, lower right.
This is the last of the important series of 10 paintings by Rose Piper in her Slave Song Series in which she revisits the theme that made her early reputation. A graduate of Hunter College, she won consecutive Rosenwald Fellowships in 1946 and 1947 and was associated with painters Charles Alston, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Vaclav Vytlacil. She received wide critical acclaim for her solo exhibition Negro Work Songs and Blues at the Roko Gallery in New York in 1947. She also traveled to Paris, where she took classes at the École des Beaux Arts and won first prize back in the U.S. in the 7th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Negro Art in 1948. In 1952, Piper was forced by financial pressures to work primarily as a designer in the garment industry.
When she returned to painting full time in 1980, her work was again exhibited nationally and was included in the touring museum exhibition, To Conserve a Legacy, American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and The Search for Freedom: African-American Abstraction 1945-75, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York.
