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Ernetta


Identifier	ErnettaCharlesSallee
Title	Ernetta
Subject	Karamu House Works Progress Administration (U.S.) African Americans Artists
Description	Born in Oberlin and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, Charles L. Sallée, Jr. (1911-2006) enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art (now called the Cleveland Institute of Art) in the 1930s, becoming its first African American graduate. He later taught at Karamu House and throughout the Cleveland school system. During the Great Depression he also worked as a printmaker and mural painter on Works Progress Administration (WPA) art projects. This piece is an etched and penciled portrait.
Creator	Sallee, Charles
Location Depicted	Fairfax (Cleveland, Ohio)
Time Period	Post-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original	n.d.
Object Type	etchings (prints) pencil drawings
Donor	Russell and Rowena Jelliffe
Collection	Russell and Rowena Jelliffe Collection
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Russell and Rowena Jelliffe Collection
Repository Homepage	http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/
Digital Publisher	Cleveland Memory Project
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	jpeg
Digital Processing Notes	TIF File Size: 35,965 k - DPI: 300
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entry	http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=KH
Further Reading	http://scholar.csuohio.edu/record=b2552889~S0

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