April 17, 2024
WALTER EDMONDS Painting 1963 SIGNED Listed AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTIST Philadelphia
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Original Philadelphia scene watercolor painting by WALTER EDMONDS. Measures 18 x 22 inches in frame which measures 23 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches. Signed in lower right. In a review of "Biennial 2000: At the Crossroads," at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Inquirer art critic Edward J. Sozanski wrote that Mr. Edmonds was among those in the show who were prominent enough that their "absence would be conspicuous."Mr. Edmonds was well-known for his work at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia.From 1973 to 1976, Mr. Edmonds and the artist Richard Watson, at the invitation of the Rev. Paul M. Washington, the longtime pastor of that Episcopal congregation, painted 14 murals inside the church.In 2003, an Inquirer reporter wrote that they were still significant because of the "hallucinatory imagery that connects the Bible and the black experience of slavery and uprising - flaming heads and spurting blood, along with heroes ranging from Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman to Malcolm X."The murals were also the centerpiece for "North & Beyond: The Mural Cycle," a 2003 multimedia performance at the church that followed a similar 2002 event there titled "North Called Home."In 2000, The Inquirer reported that the National Endowment for the Arts had given a $10,000 grant to the Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown for a public mural
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