ALABAMA NEGRO BAPTISM.

Howard Cook

Artist's Biography

Alabama Negro Baptism.

Watercolor and charcoal, c.1934.
Paper size 33 7/8 x 25 3/4" (86 x 65.4 cm).
Good condition, on thin tissue paper, several tears in the outer sheet edges and weakness in the center where it was folded. Howard traveled through the Ozark Mountains, this is likely the study drawing that traveled with the artist. LOCATION: New York City

Inventory Number: 94526
Price: $29,500.00
Publisher : Signed and titled in pencil lower right.

This drawing was done on the artist's second Guggenheim Fellowship through the Ozark Mountains in 1934. The Georgia Museum of Art has many of his drawings from this trip.

Records an event seen by Cook near Moundville, Alabama.

Wood engraving produced of this image in 1935 and entitled "River Baptism." 20th Century Subjects , Drawings And Watercolors