Description

Clapboard Creek 1950

Harold Newton (1934-1994) *an important, early and rare painting of African American art-historical interest

Signed lwr.rhs.

Oil on board

Presented in a period frame

Apprx.: 60x55cm

Harold Newton was a founder member of the African American Group of Artists in Florida – the Highwaymen and heralded as the most famous.
Working in the Deep South, where the civil rights movement was only just beginning – they sold their works exclusively to white people. These
artists were forbidden to exhibit their work in any galleries for many decades – so they went door to door across Florida selling their paintings out of the
back of their cars; and accepting commissions on the spot. This is one such example. Our picture comes from a private sale and has never been to the market before.