Lot 120: CHARLES MCGEE (1924 - ) Chessplayer.

CHARLES MCGEE (1924 - )
Chessplayer.

Charcoal on thin wove paper, mounted to mat board, circa 1966-70. 225x560 mm; 9x22 inches. Signed in charcoal, lower left.

Provenance: James A. Porter, hence by descent to his daughter, Constance Porter-Uzelac.

Born in Clemson, SC., McGee studied at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts. He exhibited in the landmark exhibit The Negro in American Art, UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles in 1966. He then curated Seven Black Artists at the Detroit Artists Market in 1969, which along with himself, included Lester Johnson, Henri Umbaji King, Robert Murray, James Lee, Allie McGhee, Harold Neal, and Robert J. Stull. This immediately led him to open the artists'' collective Gallery 7 and the Charles McGee School of Art which became a fixture in the Detroit art world. McGee''s works are in the permanent collections of Howard University, Washington, DC, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the University of Michigan Museum, Ann Arbor.