Lot 703: Samuel Joseph Brown (American, 1907-1944), "Figure in a Wooded Landscape", c. 1941; gouache/board,

9.25" x 6.5", signed and dated. Sam Brown was an African-American artist working in the Philadelphia area. He studied at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Arts, and exhibited from the 1920s-40s at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Harmon Fund, Howard University, and the Museum of Modern Art. He also exhibited in Chicago at the Southside Community Center (1941), where many well known Chicago African-American artists exhibited there work.