Lot 119: HARTWELL YEARGANS (1915 - 2005) Sunbathers.

HARTWELL YEARGANS (1915 - 2005)
Sunbathers.

Color woodcut on imitation Japan paper, 1965. 460x390 mm; 18x15 3/8 inches, full margins. Signed, dated, titled and numbered 36/50 in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression.

Born in Kansas City, this painter and printmaker moved to New York in 1936 to join his older brother James Conroy Yeargans, who was working on the WPA Harlem Hospital murals, and was later a member of the Spiral Group. After military service, the younger Yeargans studied painting at the Art Students League with Morris Kantor, and anatomy with Richard Hale. He had his first solo exhibiton at the Matrix Gallery in 1955, while leading the Lower Eastside Neighborhood Association's Visual Committee, and showing in the Village Art Center. In the mid-1960s, Hartwell Yeargans took up printmaking, first showing this and other woodcuts at the Associated American Arts Gallery, New York.