Lot 85: OTTO NEALS (1930 - ) Djuka Woman and Child.

OTTO NEALS (1930 - )
Djuka Woman and Child.

Oil on masonite, 1970. 910x610 mm; 36x24 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right. Inscribed "Dorsey Collection" in ink on the verso.

Exhibited: Legacy - Selections from the Lawrence Dorsey Art Collection, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, November 12 - December 18, 2007.

Born in Lake City, South Carolina, painter, printmaker and sculptor Otto Neals has lived in New York since the age of four. He is self-taught in all media except printmaking. An active participant in the Black Arts movement, Neals was a founding member of Weusi Collective and the Weusi Nyumba Ya Sanaa Gallery in Harlem in the late 1960s. He was also an early and active participant in the Fulton Art Fair, Brooklyn alongside artists such as Ernest Crichlow, Jacob Lawrence, Tom Feelings, Vincent Smith, Selvin Goldbourne, and Vivian Keys. His works have been acquired by many institutions such as the Smithsonian Institute, Howard University, the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, the Ghana National Museum, and the Columbia Museum, Columbia, SC.