hesiunderground:Smoking My Pipe (1934) by Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. (Courtesy the Philadelphia Museum
hesiunderground:Smoking My Pipe (1934) by Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. (Courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art)Samuel Brown received a Masters degree in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, and quickly established himself as an expert watercolorist. He had the distinction of being the first African American hired by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the government’s initial work-relief program for the arts, and later, he worked for the WPA in Philadelphia as both a painter and printmaker. -- source link