Item #82130 Printed Covarrubias Caricature of Handy INSCRIBED to E. F. Frazier. W. C. Handy.

Printed Covarrubias Caricature of Handy INSCRIBED to E. F. Frazier

1929. 22 x 27cm. (as framed under glass in a simple black wooden frame). Inscription at lower right: "To Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Frazier with appreciation for the cooking posters and [??] artistic better-half. W. C. Handy 1-19-29." Jagged crease along upper half of right edge. A small version of this caricature appears at page 40 in Handy's "Blues: An Anthology (published in 1926). *E. Franklin Frazier, the noted African American sociologist, spent most of his working career as head of the Sociology Department at Howard University. He also served as President of the American Sociological Association in 1948. We bought this item years ago at a Brunk Auction in Asheville, Tennessee. Very Good. Item #82130

Price: $400.00

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