Mixed media collage using colored ink, gouache and printed paper scraps, signed and dated "Middleton 61" in lower right. Presented in plain ebonized wooden frame, the backing having exhibition labels from the Groninger Museum and de Beyerd, both in the Netherlands. A third label naming the work is from Contemporary Arts, Inc. of New York.

Sheet 17 x 22.5 in.; DOA 23.75 x 29.25 in.

As a youth Sam Middleton left his native Harlem in New York City to travel the world in the merchant marine. Still a wanderer in mid-1950s, he was becoming recognized abroad as a serious and talented visual artist. Like many American blacks before him, Middleton found some comfort circulating in societies less racially sensitive than the USA. As a result, he became an expatriate and built his career while living in Amsterdam. Middleton has received international critical acclaim for over fifty years. In the United States his works are exhibited in New York's Whitney Museum, at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Not examined out of the frame.

$800 - 1,200