Samuel Joseph Brown American, 1907-1994
Abstract, 1937
ink on paper
image/sheet: 12 x 9"
signed, titled & dated verso
Brown was among the very first African Americans whose work was exhibited at the then new Museum of Modern Art in 1936 in an exhibition titled, New Horizons in American...
Brown was among the very first African Americans whose work was exhibited at the then new Museum of Modern Art in 1936 in an exhibition titled, New Horizons in American Art. A recent essay by Charlotte Barat and Darby English published in Among Others: Blackness at MoMA tells the story of early shaky attempts to include artists of color. We are proud to include these distinctive ink drawings from 1937 which were made while Brown was employed by the WPA.
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