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'Harlem Beauty' ('Negress', 'Negro Girl', 'Black Girl'), woodcut, 1930, edition 30, Rose lll.42. Signed, dated, numbered '1 - XXX', and titled 'Negress' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan; the full sheet with margins (1 1/8 to 3 1/8 inches); slight toning in the margins, away from the image, otherwise in very good condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
This work was included in the 1931-32 traveling exhibition 'Fifty Prints of the Year' which commenced at the Weyhe Gallery, New York, in 1931. Reproduced: 'Fifty Prints of the Year,' American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1931-32; selected by Lewis Mumford from nearly 1000 graphic submissions.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of, Ackland Art Museum, Bauhaus Archive Museum of Design (Berlin), Honolulu Academy of Arts, National Gallery of Art, Newark Public Library, New York Public Library, Princeton University Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Painter, printmaker, and art teacher, Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was among the founding fathers of American abstraction. A student at the famed Bauhaus in the 1920s, he studied under Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Wassily Kandinsky.
After his emigration to the United States in 1930, Drewes was instrumental in introducing modernist Bauhaus concepts and esthetics to America.
Drewes’ boldly dynamic and emotionally expressive work, which encompassed both non-objective and figurative genres, brought him critical acclaim and numerous gallery and institutional exhibitions throughout his long artistic career. Since his death in 1985, recognition of Drewes' important role in 20th-century American art has steadily grown among collectors and curators. His work can be found in most major American art museums including the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
- Creator:Werner Drewes (1899-1985, American)
- Creation Year:1930
- Dimensions:Height: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)Width: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Myrtle Beach, SC
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Werner Drewes
Werner Drewes was a painter, printmaker, and teacher, who was born in Canig, Germany, in 1899. His father, a Lutheran Minister, hoped he would become an architect, but Werner chose the life of an artist. After he served on the front line in France during the war, Werner was admitted to the Bauhaus in 1921, where he studied under Klee, Itten, and Muche. Later, he traveled through Europe to study such old masters as Tintoretto, Velasquez and El Greco. After marrying Margaret Schrobsdorff, they traveled throughout South America, North America and Asia. In 1930, Werner immigrated to New York City with his family. In New York City, despite the Depression, Werner joined other Bauhaus artists such as Piet Mondrian and Lyonel Feininger to make a living as an artist. This group became the core of the American Abstract Artists group. Werner taught at Columbia University, worked on the design of the 1939 World's Fair building, and had shows at the Museum of Modern Art, Kleeman Gallery, and elsewhere. In 1946, he accepted a tenured position at the Washington University in St. Louis. In his later years, he moved to Virginia and continued to show at galleries in Germany, Turkey, and in the United States. The Smithsonian held a show attributing his 65 years as a printmaker at the Museum for American Artists.
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