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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
TYRONE GETER (1945 - ) Blinded by the Light.
Sanguine and black conte crayon on wove paper, 2017. 1219x965 mm; 48x38 inches. Signed and dated in crayon, lower left. With the artist's blind stamp, lower right.
Provenance: private collection, South Carolina.
This striking drawing exemplifies the exceptional draftsmanship of Tyrone Geter, and iis his first artwork to come to auction. The figurative painter, sculptor, illustrator of children's books and art educator recently retired as Associate Professor of Art at Benedict College in Columbia, SC. Born in Anniston, Alabama, Geter received his Master's of Fine Arts from Ohio University in 1978 with an emphasis on painting and drawing. In 1979, Tyrone Geter moved to Zaria, Nigeria, where for seven years he lived, drew and painted among the Fulani and local peoples of Northern Nigeria. He returned to the United States in 1987 and a teaching position at the University of Akron where he transformed his experience in Nigeria into some of the most powerful work of his career. His work has been exhibited in numerous museums including the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, the Florence Museum of Art, Florence, SC, the Center for Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA, the Butler Institute for American Art, Youngstown, OH, the Hampton Institute College Museum, Hampton, VA and the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. Geter has had solo exhibitions at Northeastern Univiersity, Boston, MA and the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinatti, OH, and was the subject of a 2014 retrospective at the North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC. Biography courtesy of Neema Fine Art Gallery, Chareston, SC.
