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WALTER WILLIAMS (1920 - 1988) Sunflowers.
Color linoleum cut on thin imitation Japan paper, 1959. 350x500 mm; 13 3/4x19 7/8 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 123/200 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, richly inked impression of this early and scarce print.
Despite the size of the edition, we have found no records for this print, one of the earliest examples of the artist's printmaking.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, the painter, printmaker and sculptor Walter Williams studied art at the Brooklyn Museum Art School under Ben Shahn, Reuben Tam and Gregorio Prestopino. He also spent a summer studying art at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. In the early 1960s, Williams moved to Copenhagen, Denmark to escape the discrimination prevalent in the United States. He returned briefly to the United States, where he completed a body of work formed by his experiences living in the South. During his time in Copenhagen, he created this series of works of black children playing in fields of flowers and butterflies for which he is best known. His works are in the permanent collections of many museums including the National Gallery of the Art, Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Museum, New York.
