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Oil on Canvas
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Signed Don McIlvaine 5-3-71 lower right
Good condition w/ stable craquelure
Don McIlvaine is known for his large scale street paintings of everyday struggles. A Washington, D.C., native, McIlvaine attended Howard University and then studied art at the Corcoran Art School and the Newark Academy of Art. McIlvaine moved to Chicago in 1957 and served as director of Chicago’s Lawndale art gallery “Art & Soul,” a project of the Conservative Vice Lords, and taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Working with gang youth in his Lawndale neighborhood, he elevated mural art to national attention in 1969-1970 with six dynamic and politically conscious street paintings.
Source: Smithsonian Archives of American Art