John Wilson (American, b.1922). "La Calle". Original color offset lithograph. 1951. Printed later. Signed in pencil, lower right. Ample margins. Fine impression. Very good condition. This example was printed in 1965 and bears a complimentary signature. In 1950, Wilson received a John Hay Whitney scholarship to Mexico, and like Charles White and Elizabeth Catlett before him, he enrolled in La Esmeralda School in Mexico City to study mural painting. He also completed a small group of lithographs depicting Mexican manual laborers working in the streets (Courtesy Swann Galleries). Overall size: 7 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. (184 x 219 mm). Image size: 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (108 x 190 mm). [21812] |250| {R100}