Lot 111: HARTWELL YEARGANS (1915 - 2005) The Red Skirt.

HARTWELL YEARGANS (1915 - 2005)
The Red Skirt.

Color woodcut, 1966. 380x290 mm; 14 7/811 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 12/20 in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression with fresh, strong colors.

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 late 1960s, Hartwell Yeargans took up printmaking, first showing his woodcuts at the Associated American Arts Gallery, and made it the focus of his work through the 1970s.