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Summer by Walter Henry Williams
Summer
Walter Henry Williams
Title
Summer
Artist
Walter Henry Williams
1920 - 1998 (biography)Year
1974
Technique
color blockprint
Image Size
13 3/4 x 13 3/4" round
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
1 of 10
Annotations
pencil titled, dated and editioned; annotated "imp"
Reference
Paper
cream fibrous, open weave wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
20491
Price
$2,500.00
Description
African-American / Danish printmaker Walter Williams studied with Ben Shahn and in Mexico before moving permanently to Denmark, where he died in 1998.
The African-American artist/scholar David Driskell visited Williams in 1967 and noted that Williams' images of children and butterflies represented a "dream world where the mind is at peace with nature and self."
"Summer" is such a work, with young black children in a sun bathed field, picking flowers and chasing butterflies. This impression is from a small edition of 10. Williams often varies the colors within the edition.