Sentences with phrase «first african american»

Another Stanford alumna, Joelle Kayden, and her father, Dr. Herbert J. Kayden, have given the Cantor their collection of 26 works by Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000), the first African American artist ever represented by a major New York gallery, and one by his wife, Gwendolyn Knight.

Over the summer, the book won the Eisner Award at San Diego Comic - Con and apparently she is the first African American woman to receive the honor.

The first woman and first African American to hold the post, she previously served as head of Baltimore's public library system and is the former president of the American Library Association

One of her greatest accomplishments was being the first African American to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

In 1972, Thomas was the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum.

Amy Sherald won the 2016 competition — she was the first woman and first African American to take the top prize — and went on to paint First Lady Michelle Obama's official portrait for the museum.

He is the first African American to receive the medal, which pays tribute to «an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture.»

In 1972, Thomas was the first African American woman to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (at left), and later that year an exhibition of her work was mounted at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington.

In addition to the Fortune coup, he married fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight in July, celebrated the Fortune feature with an exhibit of the entire 60 - panel migration series at Edith Halpern's Downtown Gallery in November, and before the end of the year he signed a contract with Halpern, becoming the first African American artist to be represented by a major New York gallery.

«WILLIAM POPE.L: Desert» @ Steve Turner Contemporary Los Angeles A «visual and performance - theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries,» William Pope.L is presenting sculpture, drawings, new photographs and a new film featuring Joe Gans, the first African American World Boxing champion.

The pathbreaker was Phillip J. Hampton (1922 - 2016), an artist and educator who 65 years ago was the first African American student to earn a master's degree in fine arts at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri.

Alain Locke Finally Gets Proper Burial at Congressional Cemetery In the Washington Post, Frances Stead Sellers reports on the circuitous 60 - year journey of the ashes of Alain Locke (1885 - 1954), considered the dean of the Harlem Renaissance, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and Howard University professor was an avid supporter of artists.

McArthur Binion would eventually be the first African American to graduate from Cranbrook University with an MFA after which he would move to New York City and eventually to Chicago, where he has lived and worked for the last thirty years.

Glenn Ligon's Untitled (Stranger in the Village # 17), 2000 is printed with text from James Baldwin's essay «Stranger in the Village» about being the first African American to visit a Swiss town.

In 1970, he became the first African American sculptor to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Following his childhood in rural Mississippi, where he picked cotton at a young age, and in Detroit, where his family worked the assembly lines of the automobile industry, Binion became the first African American to obtain an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

«Arthur Mitchell: Harlem's Ballet Trailblazer» is the first major exhibition to explore the life and career of the estimable Arthur Mitchell, a trailblazer at the New York City Ballet, its first African American star (1955 - 71), and founder of the critically acclaimed Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Then she had the solo exhibition at the Whitney, the first African American woman to do so.

In 1972, Thomas was the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

He was the first African American artist to participate in the international exhibition.

And in the years following the release of their magnum opus, Henderson began working on a biography of Edmonia Lewis, the first African American woman to receive national and international acclaim for her work as a sculptor.

A Ballerina's Tale chronicles Misty Copeland's historic rise to become the first African American principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.

American artist Al Loving rose to fame in the 1960s, during which time he gained a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art and was the first African American to do so.

At the age of 80, Alma Thomas became the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Fast forward seven years later to 2017 and Bradford becomes the first African American artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale when he turned the U.S. Pavilion into an incisive commentary on police brutality, slavery and the current state of politics.

Sirmans, who joined the museum in October as the first African American to serve as PAMM director, said he was touched by the recent donations.

Colescott was the first African American artist to represent the United States in a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale (1997).

As a direct result of their activism, Chase - Riboud and Betye Saar became the first African American women to show at the Whitney.

Gösta Peterson broke the static mold of 1950's fashion photography as well as racial boundaries by putting the first African American woman on the cover of a fashion magazine.

1948: Leonard Pryor becomes the first African American to attend KCAI.

A few years into the list, the first African American artist appears.

She received first prize in the 1940 American Negro Exposition held in Chicago for her graduate thesis at Howard University and was the first African American recipient of an MFA in sculpture at the University of Iowa.

When Lewis won the prestigious Carnegie International Award in Painting in 1955, he was the first African American artist to earn the honor.

In 1924 she became the first graduate of Howard University's newly organized art department, and in 1972 she became the first African American woman to hold a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Works by Robert Rauschenberg, right, and Alma Thomas, the first African American artist woman represented in the White House, left, make a modern splash.

As the first African American photographer hired full time by Life magazine, Parks was frequently given assignments involving social issues affecting black America.

Trained as a painter, DeCarava became the first African American photographer to win a prestigious Guggenheim award in 1952.

In 1972 Thomas was the first African American woman to have solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and within the same year an exhibition was also held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

An accomplished and celebrated painter who was the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1972, Thomas pursued many forms of creativity.

Such were the poignant, transcendent concepts behind the canvases of the first African American woman to receive a solo show at the Whitney.

Finally, no treatment of political art today would be complete without acknowledging the recent passing of African American printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett, whose famous images Sharecropper and Malcolm X Speaks for Us in the 1960s and 70s, among numerous others, underlie the history of a nation currently deciding whether to re-elect its first African American president.

Subjects covered have included the diminution of privacy, the meaning of the election of our first African American president and the effects on the human rain of exposure to constant streams of information.

The Cumberland County native is also the first African American contemporary artist to have his work (Batman, 1979) included in the widely - used reference book The History of Art by H.W. Janson.

Melvin Edwards @ Alexander Gray Associates Oct. 30 — Dec. 13, 2014 FINAL DAYS Houston - born Melvin Edwards's metalwork objects and installations are defined by his aesthetic, philosophical and personal connections to Africa, where he has regularly traveled throughout several countries since 1970 (the same year he became the first African American artist to mount a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum), establishing a studio in Dakar in 2000.

These advancements were made all the more emphatic by the achievements of artists like the Washington painter Alma Thomas, who, at the age of eighty, was the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art in 1972.

Swann Auction Galleries held its first African American fine art auction of the year on April 2.

He is considered by many to be the first African American artist fully engaged by abstraction.

In 1955, Lewis became the first African American artist to receive the Carnegie International Award in Painting for his Migrating Birds (1953).

In 1923, he became the first African American member of AIA, and later the first black member to be inducted into AIA's College of Fellows (1957).

(Twenty - five years earlier, in 1990, Simpson was the first African American woman to have her work exhibited at the prestigious international exhibition.)