Sentences with phrase «african american painters»

He says that this is the first flourishing of a secondary market for works by African American painters.

An expatriate, Tanner was one the most important African American painters of the early 20th century.

Born in Mississippi in 1946, Binion lived in New York in the «70s and was loosely part of a group of African American painters who, despite the pressures to make artwork that was politically motivated, devoted themselves to abstraction.

It seems like African American painters are among the few who still use painting as a political platform... Even though it's abstraction, your work straightforwardly tackles very difficult subject matter: issues of race, economic disparity, AIDS.

According to William Arnett, editor of Souls Grown Deep, Purvis was perhaps the greatest» pure painter» among a group of twentieth century» vernacular African American painters» from the South.

«Generations of black abstract painters never seem to be celebrated,» says Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where she recently organized «Black in the Abstract,» a two - part exhibition that focused on the history of African American painters working in abstraction.

«America Is Hard to See,» the Whitney Museum's inaugural exhibition in its new building, showcased art by Castle, Bill Traylor (who was born into slavery in Alabama and began making art at age 85), and Horace Pippin (one of the first self - taught African American painters to attract the attention of major museums like the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney), but was also, in Edlin's view, «something of a missed opportunity,» considering the overall ratio of those few works to the entire installation.

In this vivid glimpse into the early life of African American painter Jacob Lawrence, the rhythms, shapes, and Matisse - like colors of Harlem in the 1930s make for a sumptuous setting.

As an African American painter, Bradford has long been fascinated by Still's extensive use of black as a signature component of his work.

It makes me think of everything from abstract painting and Sam Gilliam, the noted African American painter, to Southern rural quilting and the homeless on the streets of Manhattan.

A third room gives space to exclusions — Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and an African American painter, Norman Lewis.

African American painter Beauford Delaney was a critically acclaimed artist often remembered for his symbolic use of sharp, pure colors that thickly saturated his canvases.

In any case, there is no information on individual artists, some of whom, like the wonderful Bob Thompson — an African American painter and jazz musician who died of a heroin overdose in 1966 — really deserve to be better known.

galleryIntell: The average museum goer probably knows quite a few modern abstract painters: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, all come to mind quite easily, but I doubt we could name even one African American painter from that period.

Moving to Paris the following year, he studied the work of Monet, Cézanne, and the African American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner (who lived in France).

Kara Walker is an African American painter, silhouettist, print - maker, installation artist and film - maker whose pieces are considered to be some of the most daring works of art the contemporary scene has in its arsenal.

Our cover story looks at the relationship between noted African American painter Beauford Delaney and noted African American writer and activist James Baldwin.

The passion and talent of African American painter Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891 - 1978) shines through each of the full - color reproductions in this elegant book, the first comprehensive text published on Thomas's life and work in over fifteen years.

Jack Whitten, the African American painter and sculptor who died Saturday at 78, was once given a tour of St. Catherine's Monastery, at Mount Sinai.

In the current FOCUS series of exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, abstract paintings by the African American painter Stanley Whitney are on view through April 2.

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry is the definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall, accompanying a major traveling retrospective.

More than 100 works by acclaimed African American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859 — 1937) include 12 paintings that have never been shown in a Tanner retrospective, as well as the only two sculptures completed by the artist.

AFRICAN AMERICAN PAINTER AND PRINTMAKER Eldzier Cortor died on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 26.

Favorite painting by African American painter Jacob Lawrence of Pamela Joyner at Presidio Terrace home in San Francisco, California, Sept. 09, 2008.

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Bonnie Magness - Gardine manages the Art Theft Program at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C.. For many years, she and other investigators had seen innumerable forgeries of the work of Clementine Hunter, a self - taught and incredibly prolific African - American painter from Louisiana.

uuu Living in Paris as American ambassador, Thomas Jefferson observes France's growing revolutionary fervor while striking up two romantic relationships: one with the wife of a foppish French painter, the other with the African - American nursemaid of his youngest daughter.

In the early 1990s, as a young artist out of graduate school at Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied the work of mainstream abstract painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland, Odita got a job at Kenkeleba House in New York, owned by the painter Joe Overstreet, who collected and showed work by African American artists.

BOOK > Edited by Lowery Stokes Sims, «Common Wealth: Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston» (published Jan. 27) delves into the museum's collection to explore the story of African Americans in the visual arts from enslaved craftspersons, to painters, printmakers and sculptors.

Mr. Marshall has absorbed enough personal history, American history, African - American history and art history to become one of the great history painters of our time.

A VISIONARY AND IMAGINATIVE PAINTER, Marshall is recognized for his thought - provoking explorations of American history and representations of the African American experience, using black paint for his black figures.

The latter, the most comprehensive exhibition ever of the work of the New York - based African - American painter, was organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

TALK April 24: Ethiopian - born American painter Julie Mehretu discusses her practice with Karen Milbourne, a curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, for the Meet the Artist series at the Hirshhorn Museum.

Henry Taylor is a painter known for his intimate depictions of people, capturing a wide range of subjects that span from his close friends and family, to strangers whose appearances strike him, to celebrities within the African American community.

Strong close - up of the American painter Robert Colescott, looking elsewhere above; first African - American artist to represent the United States in a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale, is renowned for crowd subjects that convey... Meer

Collage, popular culture, or the mere appearance of both in paint has played a similar role for excluded voices, such as African Americans after Romare Bearden, and it is no coincidence that every painter that I have mentioned thus far is a woman.

A REVIEW OF THE WEEK»S NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS IN THE ART WORLD Featuring Dak» Art, Black abstract painters, African American art auctions, Yam Collective and more DAK» ART is winding down after a month of exhibitions and events.

Sept. 12, 2014 — Feb. 1, 2015 NORMAN LEWIS at The Jewish Museum New York «From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis, 1945 - 1952» explores the work of two Abstractionist painters, African American artist Norman Lewis (1909 - 1979) and Jewish artist Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984) with relatively parallel careers.

1993 Free Within Ourselves, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY Two Painters / Two Decades: Jan Muller and Bob Thompson, Vanderwoude - Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY Diversity and Style: African American Artists, The University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI

Yes, this is critical, and yes, this is long overdue but Marshall, who grew up in Birmingham Ala. 1955 during the Civil Rights Movement and then moved to Los Angeles in 1965 when Watts went up in flames, has absorbed both American history and African American history to become one of the greatest history painters of our time.

A notable African - American painter, Jacob Lawrence was known for his modernist depictions of everyday life and the African American experience.

Considered in terms of the social history of American art, however, he's an important figure, because, as the art historian David Driskell writes in the exhibition catalog, he was «among a small number of African - American painters in the nation working abstractly at the time, and he was among the few artists of color who were represented by a mainstream gallery in New York.»

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts offers a comprehensive retrospective of the career of Norman Lewis, the first such exhibition to be devoted to this African - American Modernist painter and one that invites viewers to consider Mr. Lewis's place in the history of the country's art.

She pushed on, and in 1934 became the first African - American artist to be elected to the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.

As a painter, storyteller, and educator, he was among the first African American artists to be represented by a New York gallery, have his work featured in prominent art museums, and consistently receive recognition.

The painter and printmaker Eldzier Cortor — now nearly 100 years old — has devoted his career to understanding and celebrating African - American culture.

Under new curator Clara M. Kim, a few trends have emerged among the 15 participating galleries: firstly, reappraisals of African - American artists later in life, among them abstract painter Jack Whitten (Alexander Gray Associates); secondly, «Global Pop», a nod to Tate Modern's autumn show «The World Goes Pop» (17 September — 24 January 2016), with Brazilian and Japanese Pop artists, such as Keiichi Tanaami at the stand of Tokyo - based Nanzuka.

The Obamas are connoisseurs — they were the first presidential family to display work by African - American painters like Glenn Ligon and Alma Thomas — and yet their choice stood out, because Wiley is an artist whose stature in the art world comes close to matching Obama's in politics.

American painter, printmaker, and sculptor Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) has created a complex body of work which masterfully weaves together visual influences ranging from the Renaissance to modernism with principles of rhythm and improvisation drawn from his study of African cultures and American jazz.

Jules de Balincourt, «Holy Arab,» 2007, oil on panel, 34x 34» Louis Cameron, «African - American Unity Flag (after Vincent W Paramore),» 2009, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 60 ″ Wendy White, «Dotte,» 2010, acrylic on canvas, 82 1/4 x 96» Marlene Dumas, «Charity,» 2010, oil on linen, 43-1/4 x 50-5/8 ″ Charlie Finch chewed out painters at artnet last... read more... «Disagreeing with Charlie Finch»

A nationally renowned painter, installation artist and filmmaker, Marshall reflects and continues the tradition of moral conscience of Gordon Parks and other leading African American visual artists.