Details
Description
African-American Walter Henry Williams Print "Fighting Cock #3"
Offered for sale is a color woodblock print titled "Fighting Cock #3" …
Read more
African-American Walter Henry Williams Print "Fighting Cock #3"
Offered for sale is a color woodblock print titled "Fighting Cock #3" by the African-American artist Walter Henry Williams (1920-1988). The print is pencil signed in the lower right and dated 1964. The print is #20 from an edition of 200. This piece is nicely framed under glass, is wired and ready to hang.
.
Walter Henry Williams was born in Brooklyn, New York, August 11, 1920. He studied art at the Brooklyn Museum Art School under Ben Shahn, Reuben Tam and Gregorio Prestopino under the G.I. Bill. He also spent a summer studying art at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. After graduating Williams won a Whitney fellowship to study in Mexico.
According to the "History of African-American Artists" by Bearden and Henderson, after Williams' four years of living in racially liberal Mexico he "felt the freedom from racial prejudice was essential for his further development." He then returned to the U.S. and began to travel to Denmark in 1959.
Williams moved to Copenhagen, Denmark and became a citizen in 1979. He returned briefly to the United States, where he completed a body of work informed by the experiences of being an African American living in the South. It was while he was in Copenhagen, however, that he created a series of colorful woodcuts of black children playing in fields of flowers. Walter Williams died in Copenhagen in June of 1998.
Dimensions: Height: 28.5 in (72.39 cm)
Width: 33 in (83.82 cm)
Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
See less
- Dimensions
- 33ʺW × 0.75ʺD × 28.5ʺH
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- Mid 20th Century
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Glass
- Paper
- Pen and Ink
- Wood
- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Orange
- Condition Notes
- good vintage condition good vintage condition less
Questions about the item?
Returns & Cancellations
Return Policy - All sales are final 48 hours after delivery, unless otherwise specified in the description of the product.
Related Collections
- Tatiana Alida Original Prints
- Ross Bleckner Original Prints
- Greg Copeland Original Prints
- Clay Walker Original Prints
- Carrie Bergey Original Prints
- Balmain Original Prints
- Chaim Gross Original Prints
- Gorman Original Prints
- William Meyerowitz Original Prints
- Raffia Original Prints
- Leonardo Nierman Original Prints
- Crystal Original Prints
- Abraham Rattner Original Prints
- Spray Paint Original Prints
- Teak Original Prints
- Red Grooms Original Prints
- Botanical Prints
- Japanese Woodblock Prints
- Bird Prints
- Woodblock Prints
- Framed Prints
- Screen Prints
- Black and White Prints
- Thomas McKnight Original Prints
- Classical Greek Original Prints