Edition not stated but small. Signed, titled, and annotated AP in pencil. Dated May 1970 in pencil in the bottom right sheet edge.
Image size 15 5/8 x 18 inches (397 x 457 mm); sheet size 19 7/8 x 24 inches (505 x 610 mm).
A fine impression, with fresh colors, on Arches, heavy, cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/8 to 3 inches); minor foxing in the margins, not affecting the image; two short (1/4 inch) repaired tears in the left sheet edge, otherwise in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Scarce.
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Hilliard Reynolds Dean (b.1933) is a painter and printmaker of figurative and abstract works active in the Washington DC area. Dean’s graphic works are in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His work is referenced in Afro-American Artists, A Bibliographical Directory, edited by Theresa Dickason Cederholm, Boston Public Library, 1973; and in Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art, Regenia A. Perry, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1992.
