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SAMELLA LEWIS Confrontation.
Linoleum cut, 1969. 303x303 mm; 12x12 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 8/35 in pencil, lower margin. A good impression of this scarce print by this female African-American artist and scholar.
According to the Duke University Art Library, Lewis earning her doctorate in 1951 from Ohio University, and became the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in art history and fine art.
As a practicing artist, she cultivated close relationships with several other African-American artists, including Elizabeth Catlett (b. 1919), her undergraduate mentor, and Romare Bearden (1914-1988) and produced an important archive resource of African Art.
She is currently a professor of art history at Scripps College in Claremont, California, where she became the first tenured African-American professor at the college, and an academic scholarship bears her name.
