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CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977) Shade

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CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977) Shade

Schätzpreis
25.000 $ - 35.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
24.000 $
Beschreibung:

CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977) Shade Chadman . Goauche on tan wove paper, circa 1940-41. 483x381 mm; 19x15 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto. Signed, titled and numbered 15 in pencil on a fragment of the backing paper, verso. Provenance: Donna Edwards and Josiah Mizukami, Hawaii; Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York (2001); John Axelrod, Boston (2001); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2011). Exhibited: African-American Art, 20th Century Masterworks, VIII , Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, January 18 - March 10, 2001 (titled Shade Chapman ). Illustrated: Lindsay J. Twa, Artist's Statements at Work: Visual Artists and the Julius Rosenwald Fund , Forum for Modern Language Studies, Oxford University Press, University of St. Andrews, p. 12; Alvia Wardlaw, Charles Alston, The David Driskell Series of African American Art: Volume VI , p. 35; African-American Art, 20th Century Masterworks, VIII , Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, p. 20. This painting is from the important series of works on paper Alston completed during his Rosenwald Foundation scholarship to travel through the South between 1940 and 1941. This scarce gouache is one of a few known today. According to Daniel Schulman, Charles Alston's Rosenwald Fellowship project planned "to help do for the South in art what Grant Wood John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton accomplished for the Middle West." His Rosenwald artist statement states his aim to create African-American imagery as iconic and uniquely American as Grant Wood's American Gothic . Lindsay J. Twa uses an archival photograph of Shade Chadman from Fisk University to illustrate how he aimed to produce "his equivalent to Wood's Iowa farmer and daughter:" "Here, Alston isolates his rural figure, capturing the sitter from a viewpoint slightly below. This compresses and distorts the construction of the face at the same time as it elongates his neck and upper body. The figure seems simultaneously monumental and emaciated. No longer a portrait, nor a straight 'ethnographic type,' Alston's worker becomes an expressive testament of fortitude in the face of want." Unfortunately, Alston's Southern project was cut short by his enlistment into the army in 1942. Alston produced vivid imagery during this Rosenwald period while traveling through the Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Georgia. In Durham, NC, he followed Giles Hubert, an inspector of the Farm Security Adminstration, to many farm sites, and then ended up in Atlanta. There, Alston found a studio in a library of Atlanta University, where he lived with Hale Woodruff. Schulman describes two other gouaches from this period, Farm Boy , 1941, in the collection of Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, and another semi-Cubist work entitled Ruin ; another gouache, Tobacco Farmer , 1940, was also in the collection of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. Kenkeleba p. 22; Schulman pp. 90-91; Twa p. 12; Wardlaw p. 33.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 28
Auktion:
Datum:
14.02.2013
Auktionshaus:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
Beschreibung:

CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977) Shade Chadman . Goauche on tan wove paper, circa 1940-41. 483x381 mm; 19x15 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto. Signed, titled and numbered 15 in pencil on a fragment of the backing paper, verso. Provenance: Donna Edwards and Josiah Mizukami, Hawaii; Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York (2001); John Axelrod, Boston (2001); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2011). Exhibited: African-American Art, 20th Century Masterworks, VIII , Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, January 18 - March 10, 2001 (titled Shade Chapman ). Illustrated: Lindsay J. Twa, Artist's Statements at Work: Visual Artists and the Julius Rosenwald Fund , Forum for Modern Language Studies, Oxford University Press, University of St. Andrews, p. 12; Alvia Wardlaw, Charles Alston, The David Driskell Series of African American Art: Volume VI , p. 35; African-American Art, 20th Century Masterworks, VIII , Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, p. 20. This painting is from the important series of works on paper Alston completed during his Rosenwald Foundation scholarship to travel through the South between 1940 and 1941. This scarce gouache is one of a few known today. According to Daniel Schulman, Charles Alston's Rosenwald Fellowship project planned "to help do for the South in art what Grant Wood John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton accomplished for the Middle West." His Rosenwald artist statement states his aim to create African-American imagery as iconic and uniquely American as Grant Wood's American Gothic . Lindsay J. Twa uses an archival photograph of Shade Chadman from Fisk University to illustrate how he aimed to produce "his equivalent to Wood's Iowa farmer and daughter:" "Here, Alston isolates his rural figure, capturing the sitter from a viewpoint slightly below. This compresses and distorts the construction of the face at the same time as it elongates his neck and upper body. The figure seems simultaneously monumental and emaciated. No longer a portrait, nor a straight 'ethnographic type,' Alston's worker becomes an expressive testament of fortitude in the face of want." Unfortunately, Alston's Southern project was cut short by his enlistment into the army in 1942. Alston produced vivid imagery during this Rosenwald period while traveling through the Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Georgia. In Durham, NC, he followed Giles Hubert, an inspector of the Farm Security Adminstration, to many farm sites, and then ended up in Atlanta. There, Alston found a studio in a library of Atlanta University, where he lived with Hale Woodruff. Schulman describes two other gouaches from this period, Farm Boy , 1941, in the collection of Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, and another semi-Cubist work entitled Ruin ; another gouache, Tobacco Farmer , 1940, was also in the collection of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. Kenkeleba p. 22; Schulman pp. 90-91; Twa p. 12; Wardlaw p. 33.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 28
Auktion:
Datum:
14.02.2013
Auktionshaus:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
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