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John Wilfred Outterbridge Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1933 -

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Apr. 04, 2019
JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE (1933 - ) Towers in Watts.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE (1933 - ) Towers in Watts. Offset lithograph on wove paper, 1979. 216x159 mm; 8 1/2x6 1/4 inches. Signed, titled and dated in ink, lower margin. Provenance: Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, with the gallery label on the frame back; private collection, California. Aside from his well known work with assemblage, John Outterbridge was also an educator and an activist. He began teaching at the Compton Communicative Arts Academy and the Watts Towers Art Center in the mid-1960s. Outterbridge became director of the academy in 1970 and of the arts center in 1975.
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Feb. 14, 2013
JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE (1933 - ) Dos Hombres.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE (1933 - ) Dos Hombres. Welded and painted metal and wooden base, 1968. Approximately 127x166x90 mm; 5x6 1/4x3 1/2 inches. Signed twice and dated '68 in ink on the bottom of the base. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; thence by descent to a private collection. This is an early example of John Outterbridge's assemblage, in which he manipulated found objects from South Central Los Angeles to reflect both an African and American heritage. Assemblage helped define the emerging aesthetic of African-American sculpture on the West Coast in the 1960s found in the works of Mel Edwards, David Hammons and Noah Purifoy. Outterbridge was a very influential voice in his community as a founding member and the director of the Studio Watts Workshop, the first art school created in South Central. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Madison, WI.
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