Mixed media collage, using colored ink, gouache and printed paper scraps, signed and dated "Middleton '62" in lower right. Presented in plain silver-toned wooden frame, the backing boldly titled and having exhibition labels from the Groninger Museum and de Beyerd, both in the Netherlands.

SS 17 x 24.75 in.; 24.25 x 33.25 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.

Age toning to the work; scuffs to the frame.

$800 - 1,200