U2006.0.34
Title
U2006.0.34
Creator
Alvin Carl Hollingsworth (African American 1928-2000)
Date
1979
Label
Duo, from the Don Quixote Series, ca. 1979
Alvin Carl Hollingsworth (African American 1928-2000) Lithograph, edition of 250 Found in the Collection U2006.0.34
Alvin Carl Hollingsworth was a leading African-American artist and educator, who began his career as a comic book illustrator. He is notable for being a member of the Spiral Group, a coalition of black artists brought together by Romare Bearden and Norman Lewis in response to the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom planned for August 1963. In the 1970s, Hollingsworth painted wall murals for the Don Quixote Apartment Building in the Bronx, NYC. About the same time, he created a series of lithographs and paintings that depicted Cervantes’ characters of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. The series began about the time when the musical Man of La Mancha opened on Broadway in 1965. It may have been the inspiration for these works.
Alvin Carl Hollingsworth (African American 1928-2000) Lithograph, edition of 250 Found in the Collection U2006.0.34
Alvin Carl Hollingsworth was a leading African-American artist and educator, who began his career as a comic book illustrator. He is notable for being a member of the Spiral Group, a coalition of black artists brought together by Romare Bearden and Norman Lewis in response to the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom planned for August 1963. In the 1970s, Hollingsworth painted wall murals for the Don Quixote Apartment Building in the Bronx, NYC. About the same time, he created a series of lithographs and paintings that depicted Cervantes’ characters of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. The series began about the time when the musical Man of La Mancha opened on Broadway in 1965. It may have been the inspiration for these works.
Credit Line
Museums at Washington & Lee University
Citation
Alvin Carl Hollingsworth (African American 1928-2000), “U2006.0.34,” Museums at Washington and Lee University: Online Exhibits, accessed May 17, 2024, https://exhibits-museums.omeka.wlu.edu/items/show/314.