JAMES LESESNE WELLS (1902 - 1992) Builders.

JAMES LESESNE WELLS (1902 - 1992)

Builders.

Etching on cream laid paper, 1938. 267x216 mm; 10x8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Artist's Proof" in pencil, lower margin.Provenance: collection of the artist, Washington, DC; private collection, California.Exhibited: James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art, the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, December 4, 1986 - January 24, 1987 (traveled to the Studio Museum in Harlem) ; California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, with the labels on the frame back.Illustrated: Richard J. Powell and Jock Reynolds. James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art. no 21, p. 25.