Summer

Walter Henry Williams

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.