Subject: Re: Black & White water color artist of Black Natives J.P. Ludu
Author: Cheryl Cullman Guider
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] Date Posted:06:29:20 02/03/08 Sun In reply to:
Roger Netting
's message, "Re: Black & White water color artist of Black Natives J.P. Ludu" on 12:09:12 02/13/07 Tue
>I have an excellent painting (25x35cm) by J P Ludu
>that I purchased while I was a surveyor in Uganda in
>the late 1950s. It is a watercolour of an African
>(head and shoulders only) with various adornments. I
>always believed him to be a Masai tribesman but he
>might be from one of the other East African nomadic
>tibes. Research is required to identify which one. I
>believe that Ludu was Kenyan but he was employed as a
>cartographical draughtsman in the Survey Department of
>Uganda at Entebbe. His work was in such demand that he
>quit his job and became a full-time artist.
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