Edmund Archer

Howard Patterson of the "Harlem Yankees"
1940

Oil painting of a seated African American man in a red tank top and blue shorts, holding a basketball on his right side. He has a focused expression and is set against a draped beige backdrop with a white towel to his left. The artist's signature is visible in the lower right corner.

Oil painting of a seated African American man in a red tank top and blue shorts, holding a basketball on his right side. He has a focused expression and is set against a draped beige backdrop with a white towel to his left. The artist's signature is visible in the lower right corner.

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Date
1940

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 34 1/8 × 29 3/16in. (86.7 × 74.1 cm)

Accession number
42.2

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/1667

Exhibitions

Modernisms

Aug 29, 2007–Jan 13, 2008

Edmund Archer
3 works in the collection

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