Signed On Lower Right
The Medium Is Oil On Canvas Board
Beautiful Condition. with frame.
Painting's age is estimate circa 1960s by checking the age of the artwork and medium.
Size of the painting is 24 By 18 inches, frame is 29 by 23 inches



Robert H. Colescott (1925 - 2009) was active/lived in Arizona, California. Robert Colescott is known for Mod satire-genre, crowds-objects.


Colescott became a controversial artist because he used exaggerated, even stereotyped, images of blacks in his paintings. He used satirical themes as shocking social commentary, particularly in his parodies of classic European paintings with minstrel-like black characters.

As an older artist, he was described as continuing "to produce vitally significant work which has become more and more biting, provocative and, at times, even savage. "No one has been more important as a role model for a younger generation of African-American artists exploring the relationship between the self and the impediments of its realization. In this way, he has created one of the most powerful bodies of work in recent American art, employing a highly personal brand of narrative figuration laced with enough irony to expose the still on-going racial inequity of our culture." (http://www.africana.com/research/thisday/rc0826.asp)

Living in Cairo, Egypt in 1964 as part of a teaching residency, Colescott was much influenced by culture beyond Western canon. He returned to America which was in the throes of the Civil Rights movement. He spent time on the West Coast, where he associated with Roy De Forest, Joan Brown and Robert Arneson in the Bay Area and played a part in the revival of figurative painting in the 1960s. In the mid-1970s, he began using images from popular culture and making racial parodies of masterpieces from art history, which presaged the emergence of "appropriation" in the 1980s.

His work is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

PROVENANCE
private collection In Pennsylvania

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