ROBERT REID (1924 - 2002)
Towards Honfleur.

Watercolor and pencil on cream wove paper, 1989. 762x558 mm; 30x22 inches. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Paris" in pencil, upper and lower edges.

Provenance: private collection, Pennsylvania.

Towards Honfleur is an abstract study by Robert Reid inspired by the landscape around Honfleur, France. Located in Normandy, Honfleur is lined with 16th- to 18th-century townhouses, and has long been a subject for artists, including Claude Monet.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Robert Reid was both a painter and an art educator. He was a painting instructor at the Summit Art Center in New Jersey and a Professor of Drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1970s. He studied at Clark College, Atlanta, the Parsons School of Design, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago from 1941-1950. His exhibitions include the 1st World Festival of Negro Artists, Dakar, Senegal, 1965, the important Negro in American Art exhibition, UCLA Art Galleries, 1966, Arts in the American Embassies State Department Program, 1967, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Studio Museum in Harlem, 1968-69, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971. His work is in the collections of the Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, the University of Notre Dame, Cornell University, Newark Museum, Syracuse University, University of Pennsylvania, and Drew University.