Walter Henry Williams Sunflowers at Sunset Woodcut, Signed, Numbered, 1959, Usa

Walter Henry Williams Sunflowers at Sunset woodcut, signed, numbered, 1959, USA. Walter Henry Williams, Sunflowers, 1959 woodcut in colors on thin Japan paper, 14.25 h × 20 w in (36 × 51 cm). Signed, titled, dated and numbered to lower edge ‘167/200 Sunflowers Walter Williams 1959’. This work is number 167 from the edition of 200. Walter Henry Williams Jr. (1920–1998) was an African American-born artist, painter, printmaker and ceramicist who became a Danish citizen later in his life. The subjects of his artwork evolved from urban street scenes straight out of his New York upbringing to the metaphorical images of rural Black children playing in fields of sunflowers, butterflies and shacks. Williams began to exhibit his work in 1954 and in 1955 won a Whitney Fellowship that permitted him to travel and work in Mexico. He won the National Institute of Arts and Letters grant in 1960 and the Silvermine Award in 1963, among others. In 1966, he became artist-in-residence at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.