Collections record Beta

Print - "Turtle Dove"

2024-20-1

Color lithograph on cotton paper. Tree with thick trunk and rounded canopy, printed in green, yellow, and red; flowers at base of tree, in same colors. To the left of the tree is an animal resembling a turtle, with a black shell of body with white spots; spots have yellow and red centers. Signed in pencil below, "42/275" and "TURTLE DOVE," with artist's signature and "1980" at lower-right. Printer's embossed mark in lower-left corner.

Andrews (1930-2006) was born in a farming community in Georgia. His father, George, was a sharecropper and self-taught artist. Andrews was the first member of his family to finish high school, and later enlisted in the US Air Force and served in the Korean War. Andrews graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and moved to New York, where he begins to exhibit at the Forum Gallery. His work was exhibited in solo and group shows at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Queens Museum; and many others. Throughout his career, Andrews frequently taught art, served in community and advocacy organizations, and organized protests of major art exhibitions that excluded Black artists and curators or eschewed Black representation. Later in his life, Andrews maintained a home in Litchfield, Connecticut, with his wife, the artist Nene Humphrey.

• Andrews, Benny, 1930-2006

1980

Overall width 22.25", length 30"

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