1964 California AP Aquatint Print "Douglass" by Thomas Cornell (1937-2012)(Mod)

Up for sale from a recent estate of a well known collector here in Honolulu Hawaii, this 1964 California large limited edition A.P. (artist proof) etching aquatint that is titled "Douglass" depicting the famous African American abolitionist and social reformer Frederick Douglass and was created by the well known artist and educator Thomas Cornell (1937-2012). In the collection registry this piece was purchased from the Esther bear Gallery in Santa Barbara. The condition is described above for more information please check the photos.

Measurements:

Print 20 inches x 14.75 inches

Sheet 25 inches x 20 inches

More about Frederick Douglass:

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 - February 20, 1895 was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.

Douglass wrote several autobiographies. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, it covered events during and after the Civil War. Douglass also actively supported women's suffrage, and held several public offices. Without his approval, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate and Vice Presidential nominee of Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ticket.

Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all peoples, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was also a believer in dialogue and in making alliances across racial and ideological divides, and in the liberal values of the U.S. Constitution. When radical abolitionists, under the motto "No Union With Slaveholders", criticized Douglass' willingness to dialogue with slave owners, he famously replied: "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."


More about the artist:

Painter and Professor of Art at Bowdoin College. Drawings, prints and paintings about human experience. Still-life, landscape and portraits based on the measurement of direct perception. Also, conceptual paintings of the human figure in the environment.

Condition: 

The print was never framed before, it has some minor faint brown stains in places, some printers ink marks in the lower margins, it can be cleaned,