A. B. Jackson (American, 1925 -1981), Summer Trees

Watercolor on paper, unsigned, matted and framed below glass.

Sheet sight 27 x 21 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 37 1/4 x 31 1/2 in.

Alexander Brooks Jackson, known as A. B. Jackson, was an American painter celebrated for his abstract figure paintings and portraits. Born in New Haven, Connecticut to a black father and an English mother, Jackson pursued his artistic education at Yale University, where he earned both his BFA and MFA under the mentorship of Josef Albers.

Jackson began his career as a designer before transitioning to academia, teaching at Southern University and then Norfolk State University, where he spent a decade before becoming Old Dominion University's first black faculty member in 1967.

Jackson's work, characterized by its use of watercolors, pastels, charcoal, and acrylics, gained significant recognition, including best-in-show at the Virginia Beach Boardwalk Art Show in 1966 and inclusion in a Smithsonian Institution exhibition in 1968.

Some toning and flaking to the upper portion of the sheet, a few areas of creasing, small tear to left edge, not examined outside the frame.