American, 20th century, male.
Born 2 September 1911, in Charlotte (North Carolina); died 12 March 1988, in New York.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, lithographer, screen printer, engraver, collage artist, newspaper cartoonist, illustrator, art theorist. Religious subjects, figure compositions, local figures. Humorous cartoons, frontispieces, stage sets...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 20 March 1910, in North Plainfield (New Jersey).
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, print artist, illustrator. Religious subjects, figures, figure compositions, genre scenes, street scenes. Murals, church decoration, religious furnishings.
Harlem Renaissance.
Allan Rohan Crite studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and then at Harvard University Extension School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the Depression, he worked for the Federal Arts Project. He lived in Boston since he was one year old. From the early 1940s, Crite set out to paint the life of the black community in Roxbury and South End, Boston. He also created a number of religious works for churches in the 1930s and illustrated religious books. In particular, he published two books of Negro Spirituals with Harvard University Press, ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 7 June 1931, in Eatonton (Georgia).
Painter, draughtsman (including ink), collage artist, print artist, sculptor, collector, art historian. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, figure compositions, scenes with figures, landscapes. Designs for stained glass.
David C. Driskell earned a BFA at Howard University in ...
American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1882, in Nashville (Tennessee); died 7 February 1951, in Nashville.
Sculptor. Religious subjects, figures, animals.
William Edmondson was the son of former slaves who were emancipated following the Civil War, and grew up illiterate. He worked at various jobs, in particular, for the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St Louis Railroads until ...
American, 20th century, female.
Born 12 December 1892, in Long Creek (North Carolina); died 16 December 1987.
Painter, draughtswoman. Religious subjects, still-lifes.
Folk Art.
Minnie Evans worked as a maid and nanny on a plantation and did not start to draw until she was forty-three: she was self-taught. Her first drawing came to her in ...
American, 20th century, female.
Born December 1886, in Cloutierville (Louisiana), or January 1887; died 1 January 1988, in Natchitoches (Louisiana).
Painter, draughtswoman. Religious subjects, scenes with figures, figure compositions, still-lifes.
Folk Art.
Clementine Hunter, of Creole origin, and daughter of a former slave, was born on Hidden Hill Plantation (now called Little Eva Plantation) in the Cane River country. The date of her birth cannot be determined, but her baptismal certificate states March ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 22 February 1888, in West Chester (Pennsylvania); died 6 July 1946, in Pennsylvania.
Painter, draughtsman. Religious subjects, historical subjects, genre scenes, interiors with figures, landscapes, still-lifes.
Folk Art.
In 1891, Horace Pippin's family settled in Goshen in New York State. From ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 23 May 1941, in Washington DC.
Sculptor (wood/stone/bronze), draughtsman, engraver (wood), illustrator.
Martin Puryear studied biology, painting and illustration at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC, then took a degree in Art and Architecture at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1912, in Madisonville (Kentucky); died 1985.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, illustrator. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, still-lifes. Stage costumes and sets.
Charles Sebree studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1936 to 1939, he worked in Illinois for the Federal Art Project (the federal government programme set up to help artists during the Depression). He lived on the South Side of Chicago before retiring to Washington DC....
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1924, in Bald Knob (Arkansas).
Painter, sculptor (including bronze), ceramicist, jeweller. Religious subjects, figures, animals. Murals, designs for stained glass, mosaics.
Starting in 1944, Carroll Harris Simms studied at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, the University of Toledo, and the Toledo Museum School of Art. He was the first African-American to graduate from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He went on to study at the Slade School of Art of the University of London, the Royal College of Art, London, the Swedish Institute, Stockholm, and the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. From ...
