Watch William Ellisworth Artis working on a sculpture

Watch William Ellisworth Artis working on a sculpture

William Ellisworth Artis sculpting, from A Study of Negro Artists, a 1936 silent film produced by the Harmon Foundation.
Archival footage supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org) in association with Prelinger Archives
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