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Digital Archive Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980
Art Samella Lewis, Twentieth Century Wisemen
Twentieth Century Wise Men, by Samella Lewis, 1968

Samella Lewis, Artist
Twentieth Century Wisemen , 1968

Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
17 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (43.5 x 27.6 cm) approx.
Credit Line
Collection of the artist. Photo by Ed Glendinning