Summer

Walter Henry Williams

African-American / Danish printmaker Walter Williams studied with Ben Shahn at the Brooklyn Museum Art School under the G.I. Bill in 1951 and in Mexico between 1959 and 1963 before moving permanently to Denmark in 1963, 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 an idyllic 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 varied the colors within the edition.