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WILLIAM S. CARTER (1909 - 1996) Untitled (Cubist Figure Study).
Pastel on buff wove paper, 1942. 280x230 mm; 11x9 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower sheet edge.
Provenance: the artist; Robert A. Sengstacke, Chicago (acquired directly from the artist circa 1970s); private collection, Chicago.
This colorful Cubist pastel is an early example of this influential Chicago artist's exploration of modernism. William Sylvester Carter was born in St. Louis, MO in 1909. In 1930, he moved to Chicago and began studying art at the School of the Art Institute and at the University of Illinois. He showed his works nationally throughout the 1940s - in 1940, at Howard University Gallery of Art with Charles White, and in 1942 at the First Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Prints by Negro Artists at Atlanta University. By 1943, he had joined the WPA in Illinois with Charles White, Eldzier Cortor, Earl Walker and Charles Davis. Carter's works are found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the DuSable Museum of African American History and the South Side Community Art Center, all in Chicago.
