JAMES A. PORTER (1905 - 1970) The Piggy Bank. Charcoal on wove paper, 1944. 610x460 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed and dated in charcoal, lower right. With a pencil drawing of a physics diagram from Howard University on the verso. Provenance: the artist; Dorothy Porter Walker; Constance Porter Uzelac; thence by descent to the current owner, private collection. Illustrated: A History of African-American Artists, Romare Bearden and Harry B. Henderson, Jr., p. 375. This early drawing depicts the artist's daughter with an experimental cross-hatch technique. Porter painted and drew many family portraits.
JAMES A. PORTER (1905 - 1970) The Piggy Bank. Charcoal on wove paper, 1944. 610x460 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed and dated in charcoal, lower right. With a pencil drawing of a physics diagram from Howard University on the verso. Provenance: the artist; Dorothy Porter Walker; Constance Porter Uzelac; thence by descent to the current owner, private collection. Illustrated: A History of African-American Artists, Romare Bearden and Harry B. Henderson, Jr., p. 375. This early drawing depicts the artist's daughter with an experimental cross-hatch technique. Porter painted and drew many family portraits.
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