The first: Harmonics, hand-pulled print, 1995, pencil signed, dated, and marked as hors de commerce lower margin; unframed; the second: Untitled, hand-pulled print, 1977, pencil signed, dated, and numbered 21/70 lower margin, matted, unframed.

Sheet size 19 3/4 x 38 1/2 in. (the first); Mat dimensions 19 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (the second)

Sam Middleton left his native Harlem in New York City to travel the world in the US Merchant Marine. Still a wanderer in the mid-1950s, he was gaining recognition abroad as a serious and talented visual artist. Like many Black Americans before him, Middleton found some comfort circulating in societies less racially sensitive than the United States. 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.

The first with skinning and light wear around periphery of print; the second with few creases and rubbed spot upper edge; both prints mounted to cardboard (possibly by artist).