Edwin Augustus Harleston
1882-1931
Mdoel in Blue, c. 1912
oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
unsigned

Provenance: the artist's niece, Edwina Harleston Whitlock, to Earl J. Hooks, Sr, thence by descent.

Earl J. Hooks, Sr. was a professor of art at Fisk University in the 1970s, but maintained ties to Gary, Indiana, where he had previously taught and had a studio. Hooks met Edwina Harleston Whitlock in Gary. She was a school teacher and her husband was a publisher of a local Black newspaper (this is documented in a paper written by Hooks. He also mentions he documented their many meetings over the years in an audio file, location unknown).