Lot 481
Ellis Wilson (American/Kentucky, 1899-1977), "Turpentine Farm", oil on masonite, c. 1940, signed lower right, handwritten artist label with title en verso, 19 1/2 in. x 23 1/2 in. E18000-24000 Provenance: Private collection, Philadelphia. Note: In the 1940s, the talented African American artist Ellis Wilson focused on images of Black laborers. This daily work fascinated Wilson and he created a powerful series of paintings that documented workers, including New Jersey airplane factory mechanics, street vendors in Harlem and lumber and turpentine workers in the South. A painting from the same series as "Turpentine Farm" entitled "Lumberjacks" is in the collection of the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky. Reference: Albert F. Sperath, The Art of Ellis Wilson, exhibition catalogue, The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
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