Untitled (Young Girl Reading)

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Dox Thrash
Untitled (Young Girl Reading)
c. 1940

About the Item

Dox Thrash, Untitled (Young Girl Reading), watercolor with pen and ink, c. 1940. Annotated in ink 'Dox Thrash W.C.' verso. A fine, spontaneous, rendering, with rich values, on heavy, cream wove drawing paper. The full sheet; tack holes in the four sheet corners; a small loss (1/8 inch) in the top left sheet corner; two areas of slight spotted discoloration in the upper left background (above the image); otherwise in very good, original condition. Sheet size 13 15/16 x 10 15/16 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Provenance: Oresman Collection; Susan Teller Gallery ABOUT THE ARTIST “Working in a racial idiom through his portraits, historical vignettes, nudes, and Africanist works, Thrash expresses his consciousness of his perception of blacks within the racist structures of both American society and Western art history. An African American artist, he presented the American scene as he experienced it. He wrote in an autobiographical statement that he had embarked in his career as an artist by giving in to the wanderlust that took him to Chicago’ “with the idea of observing, drawing, and painting the people of America. Especially the ‘Negro’.” Whether representing a portrait of a strong black individual, an unflinching image of racial violence, or a frank celebration of the black female body, Thrash was confronting America’s cultural history through his art. His interweaving of the human, the personal, the historical, and the political resulted in a highly individual and culturally body of work.” —Kymberly N. Pinder, 'Racial Idiom in the Works of Dox Thrash'; “Dox Thrash, an African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. Over 50 of the artist's works, including prints, drawings, and watercolors, are currently being shown at The Hyde Collection (Glens Falls, NY) in an exhibition (traveling through 2022) entitled 'Dox Thrash, Black Life and the Carborundum Mezzotint". From the introduction to the exhibition: "Philadelphia-based artist Dox Thrash (1893–1965) was both a pioneering printmaker and a noted participant in the “New Negro” movement of the 1930s and ’40s. A veteran of World War I as well as the minstrel stage, he trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before making his way to Philadelphia, where he ultimately forged a career as both a painter and a graphic artist. In 1937, Thrash signed on for employment with the Federal Art Project’s Fine Print Workshop. There, while working with fellow artists Hugh Mesibov and Michael Gallagher, he began to experiment with a new approach to intaglio printmaking, which today is known as the carborundum mezzotint process. With its broad tonal range, the new process was ideally suited to the sensitive portrayals of Black life for which Thrash would become known. Dox Thrash, Black Life, and the Carborundum Mezzotint brings together numerous examples of the experimental process by Thrash and other colleagues working in the Fine Print Workshop. Also on view are works by Thrash in other print mediums, as well as watercolors and drawings, all of which powerfully document the artist’s intimate, invested engagement with African American culture in the middle decades of the twentieth century." Dox Thrash’s work is included in the following museum collections: Ackland Art Museum, African American Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Woodmere Art Museum.

Creator:
Dox Thrash (1893 - 1965, American)
Creation Year:
c. 1940
Dimensions:
Height: 13.94 in (35.41 cm)Width: 10.94 in (27.79 cm)
Medium:
Ink,Watercolor,Pen
Movement & Style:
American Modern
Period:
1940-1949
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Myrtle Beach, SC
Reference Number:
Seller: 988291stDibs: LU53235597642