BIB_ID
451653
Accession number
MA 23884.2
Creator
Wells, James Lesesne, 1902-1993, artist.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, the Elisabeth Ball Fund, and the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2023.
Description
36 drawings
Notes
Title and suggested date range from accompanying documentation.
Housed in red cloth clamshell box (39 cm).
14 x 11 inches, or smaller (357 x 278 mm, or smaller)
Provenance
Estate Dr. James K. Hill, sold by Wechsler's, Capital Collections Auction, lot 52, March 10, 2023; purchased from Ian Brabner, 2023.
Summary
Drawings for illustrations for an unpublished collection of children's poetry by the Black American poet Effie Lee Newsome, entitled Child and nature, a children's reader; evidently intended for publication by Carter G. Woodson's The Associated Publishers
Medium
pen and black ink over graphite, on paper, the majority mounted on card
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