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WILLIAM E. SMITH (1913 - ) Bill Johnson as Emperor Jones.
Linoleum cut on stiff wove paper, circa 1940. 232x204 mm; 9 1/8x8 1/8 inches, wide margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A dark and thickly-inked impression.
Illustrated in Samella Lewis, African American Art and Artists, ill. 263, p. 255.
Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones was one of several plays produced by the WPA's Federal Theatre Project in which blacks and black themes were featured.
