Laverne Nelson Black
1887-1938
Comanche Brave
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 22 x 18 inches
Signed lower right
SOLD FOR: $ 23,400
Including Buyers Premium
AUCTION 2018,
LOT 237
Additional Information
Friends in the Kickapoo tribe on a nearby reservation in southwestern Wisconsin introduced Laverne Nelson Black to Native American culture. After his family moved to Chicago, Black studied at the Academy of Art there. A career in newspaper illustration followed, but Black used his time away to travel and paint the West, especially Taos, then the center of Western art. Poor health caused Black to relocate to Taos where he developed a style that made extensive use of the palette knife. Black died at the age of 51, perhaps as a result of the lead content in the paints he used while executing a WPA mural commission in the Phoenix post office.
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