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Larry Erskine Thomas Sold at Auction Prices

Painter, b. 1917 - d. 1986

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Apr. 06, 2023
LARRY ERSKINE THOMAS (1917 - 1986) Untitled (Ethiopian Man Weaving at a Loom).
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
LARRY ERSKINE THOMAS (1917 - 1986) Untitled (Ethiopian Man Weaving at a Loom). Color pastel on cream wove paper, circa 1950. 368x279 mm; 14 1/2x11 inches. Signed in pastel, lower right. Provenance: private collection, California.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 06, 2023
LARRY ERSKINE THOMAS (1917 - 1986) Untitled (Ethiopian Boy Playing Marbles).
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
LARRY ERSKINE THOMAS (1917 - 1986) Untitled (Ethiopian Boy Playing Marbles). Watercolor on cream wove paper, 1950. 381x267 mm; 15x10 1/2 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Ethiopia" in watercolor, lower right. Provenance: private collection, California. Born in Baltimore, Larry Erskine Thomas was a painter, art educator and museum exhibition designer. In 1949, Thomas moved to Ethiopia and taught technical and mechanical drawing in Addis Ababa for eight years. There, he befriended the father of a young artist Skunder Baghossian, introducing Skunder and his family to American jazz via the Voice of America radio programming. His art was exhibited internationally through the Art in Embassies program, including Gems of Africa, a 1967 solo exhibition sponsored by the Bureaus of African Affairs and the Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. In 1967, Thomas joined the staff at the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Washington, DC, where he was a programs manager through the 1970s. His 1956 painting The Potter's Daughter was included in the landmark exhibition The Barnett-Aden Collection at the Anacostia Museum in 1974. He studied art at the Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, MA, Massachusetts State College, the Artists Students League and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His 1967 painting Africa: the Source was in sold in African American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company at Swann Galleries on January 30, 2020.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 30, 2020
LARRY ERSKINE THOMAS (1917 - 1986) Africa: The Source.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
LARRY ERSKINE THOMAS (1917 - 1986) Africa: The Source. Oil on cotton canvas, 1967. 762x762 mm; 30x30 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto. Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed "Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC". Provenance: the artist, Washington, DC, with his studio label on the frame verso; the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Larry Erskine Thomas was a painter, art educator and museum exhibition designer. In 1967, Thomas joined the staff at the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Washington, DC, where he was a programs manager through the 1970s. His 1956 painting The Potter's Daughter was included in the landmark exhibition The Barnett-Aden Collection at the Anacostia Museum in 1974. He studied art at the Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, MA, Massachusetts State College, the Artists Students League and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In 1949, Thomas moved to Ethiopia and taught technical and mechanical drawing in Addis Ababa for eight years. There, he befriended the father of a young artist Skunder Baghossian, introducing Skunder and his family to American jazz via the Voice of American radio programming. His art was exhibited internationally through the Art in Embassies program, including Gems of Africa, a 1967 solo exhibition sponsored by the Bureaus of African Affairs and the Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. Kinnard p. 181.
Swann Auction Galleries

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