Lot 35: MASOOD ALI WILBERT WARREN (1907 - 1995) The Interior Game.

MASOOD ALI WILBERT WARREN (1907 - 1995)
The Interior Game.

Watercolor on cream wove paper, 1942. 255x355 mm; 10x14 inches. Titled, dated "8-9-42" and inscribed "Walla, Walla, Wash." in ink, lower left. Diagonal creases upper left of image.

Masood Ali Wilbert Warren was a Muslim African-American painter and sculptor known primarily for his portrait busts of famous people. He filled sketch books with drawings and watercolors of his observations of people, both during his military service and during his travels in the subways and buses of New York. He attended the Art Students League in New York in the 1930s, participated in the WPA and earned a BA from New York University in 1939, and an MA from Temple University, Philadelphia, in 1961. Warren has exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society, and the National Arts Club; much of his work is now in the Richard Allen Museum in Philadelphia.