Sam Middleton (American, 1927-2015), Concerto / Composition (Two Works)

The first: Concerto, 1995, pencil signed, dated, and marked as hors de commerce aside from the edition of 100; the second: Composition, 1997, pencil signed, dated, and numbered 35/100 lower margin; both unframed.

Sheet size 23 x 41 1/2 in. (the first), 15 x 18 1/8 in. (the second)

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 gaining recognition 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 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.

Each in very good condition; faint sheet bend right margin of the second.