Oil on panel, signed at lower left, illustrated, signed and inscribed to verso of panel "Extra, Extra, / read all about it! / I cant read... So I can't / tell you whats on this paper! / THE / 1930's news boy", presented in a hand-crafted frame by Autry Farms.

Panel 15 3/4 x 20 in.; Frame dimensions 19 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.

Richard Roebuck learned to paint as a child by watching his mother Sally Pearl paint. He was strongly influenced by her work and at an early age, and was sketching in a style very similar to hers.

As time progressed, he began painting scenes of 19th and 20th-century black folk life in the rural south. These scenes reflect both memories, along with creative renditions of historical subjects associated with the story of the South and its people.

Good estate condition.