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SAM MIDDLETON (1927 - ) Untitled (Abstract Composition).
Mixed media and collage on laid paper, mounted to buff laid paper, 1960. 380x480 mm; 15x19 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right.
Sam Middleton is known for his multi-media works in collage, and his association with jazz music. He left the United States to avoid the frustrations of discrimination in the early 1950s. He first moved to Mexico in 1955, following the path of the expatriate artist Elizabeth Catlett, where he adopted his multimedia approach of paint, gouache and collage, and moved away from social realism. Two years later, he moved to Spain where in 1960 he exhibited at Gallery Silo in Madrid. He later left for Sweden, and Denmark, where he lived in Copenhagen, and joined many other American artists including Harvey Cropper, Clifford Jackson, Walter Williams and Herbert Gentry. In 1962, he finally settled in Amsterdam where he lives and works today. His work has been in over 500 exhibitions and is in collections such as the Museum Het Valkhof, Netherlands and the David C. Driskell Collection, University of Maryland.
