Lot 867: Joseph Cellini: Black Soldiers of Union Army, 1970s Watercolor & Pastel

Joseph Cellini: US Colored Troops, Discharged after the Civil War, 1970s
Watercolor and Pastel on artboard.
Signed at LR: J. Cellini.
Dimensions: 19” x 17”.
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) were regiments in the United States Army composed primarily of African-American soldiers, although members of other minority groups also served with the units.
Joseph Cellini, born in Budapest, Hungary, descended from a Venitian family name Trinchire. Cellini came to the United States as a refugee with wife, artist Eva Cellini, in 1956 after the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet Union. Settled in New York, they worked as commercial illustrators, known as Joseph and Eva Cellini. Each also maintained individual carriers: Joseph Cellini illustrated many nature, art and history books, science and fiction publications, including first three Nancy Drew novels. Eva Cellini was a famous surrealist artist.

Watercolor, Pastel

1970s

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http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?94857

An American Art Colony By Paul H. Mattingly, 2019, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Pg.115

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