2022Swann Auction GalleriesROY DECARAVA (1919-2009) Portrait of the singer, actor, and activist Paul Robeson.See Sold Price
2022Forum AuctionsHughes (Langston) The Sweet Flypaper of Life, first edition, New York, 1955; and 2 others similarSee Sold Price
2022JMW Auction ServiceRoy DeCarava (1919-2009) pencil signed photograph NYC boys playing outside of tenement building,See Sold Price
2022Swann Auction GalleriesROY DECARAVA. A group of 6 signed books, including his iconic The Sweet Flypaper of Life andSee Sold Price
Cleveland exhibitions capture 20th-century New York’s gritty sideCLEVELAND — A New York Minute: Street Photography, 1920–1950 and Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900–1940 opened in July at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). The exhibitions explore urban life in New York City during the first half of the 20th century through street photography and urban realism in printmaking.
American themes captured in Swann May 27 Photography saleNEW YORK — Exploring the thematic and visual diversity of the photographic medium, Swann Galleries’s auction of Photographs & Photobooks on May 27 covers 20th-century masters, as well as contemporary practitioners and items from the visual vernacular: albums, archives, and individual objects. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
African-American art featured at Gray’s Auctioneers, May 15CLEVELAND – Gray’s Auctioneers’ Fine Art, Antiques and Decorative Arts Auction on Wednesday, May 15, features a number of stellar artworks by African-American artists. One such stunning piece is Lot 54, The Seamstresses, painted in 1954 by famed African-American artist and master of the Harlem Renaissance, Jacob Lawrence. LiveAucitoneers.com will provide Internet live bidding. Lawrence […]