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Nathaniel Sirles Untitled 1981 Carved granite 8.5 x 5.75 x 5 inches Signed, dated Excellent condition Shipping U.S. $35 Nathaniel Sirles (American, b. 1956) is an artist, sculptor and poet from San Francisco. As a teenage prodigy in the 1970s, with a precocious sense of his identity as a black artist, he focused his efforts on making art specifically for black people. His paintings and sculptures, which draw heavily on African imagery and style, were shown at numerous venues, including Bill Thomas' Black Man's Art Gallery on Haight Street in San Francisco, considered the first gallery in the U.S. to focus exclusively on art by black people. Sirles' statement from the catalogue to a 1971 BlackMan's Art Gallery catalogue: The Gallery has shown me that Black people are creative, and that Black art is something beautiful, something to be proud of, a reality representing the spirit of Black people here in America where we live and experience the American nightmare, day by day. Black art is needed badly in Black homes. I spend most of my time working hard, creating the spirit of Black people, trying to get most of my work into Black homes.