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John Thomas Riddle BIOGRAPHY
1934 Los Angeles, California - 2002 Atlanta, Georgia. Known for: Sculptor and painting-Black American themes, commercial artist.
Beginning his career as a figurative artist, John Riddle altered his focus as a result of the Watts riots to themes of African Americans. He explored their harsh conditions in south-central Los... Read full biography
Beginning his career as a figurative artist, John Riddle altered his focus as a result of the Watts riots to themes of African Americans. He explored their harsh conditions in south-central Los Angeles and from the debris left from the riots, created welded-steel sculptures expressing those ideas.... Read full biography
Beginning his career as a figurative artist, John Riddle altered his focus as a result of the Watts riots to themes of African Americans. He explored their harsh conditions in south-central Los Angeles and from the debris left from the riots, created welded-steel sculptures expressing those ideas. One work, "The Ghetto Merchant," was created from a cash register from a fire-gutted store. Riddle became curator of the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. Source: "Scottsdale... Read full biography
Beginning his career as a figurative artist, John Riddle altered his focus as a result of the Watts riots to themes of African Americans. He explored their harsh conditions in south-central Los Angeles and from the debris left from the riots, created welded-steel sculptures expressing those ideas. One work, "The Ghetto Merchant," was created from a cash register from a fire-gutted store. Riddle became curator of the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. Source: "Scottsdale Tribune," 03/11/2002... Read full biography
Beginning his career as a figurative artist, John Riddle altered his focus as a result of the Watts riots to themes of African Americans. He explored their harsh conditions in south-central Los Angeles and from the debris left from the riots, created welded-steel sculptures expressing those ideas. One work, "The Ghetto Merchant," was created from a cash register from a fire-gutted store. Riddle became curator of the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. Source: "Scottsdale Tribune," 03/11/2002... Read full biography
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Beginning his career as a figurative artist, John Riddle altered his focus as a result of the Watts riots to themes of African Americans. He explored their harsh conditions in south-central Los Angeles and from the debris left from the riots, created welded-steel sculptures expressing those ideas. One work, "The Ghetto Merchant," was created from a cash register from a fire-gutted store.
Riddle became curator of the California African American Museum in Los Angeles.
Source: "Scottsdale Tribune," 03/11/2002Biography from Sage Collections
In 1990, John Riddle was selected to be an "Official Artist" for Absolut Vodka for a work entitled Absolut Riddle. Thereafter, Riddle was again honored in 1991 by being named the "Official Artist" of the Montreux Atlanta International Music Festival from a work entitled The Solo, which reflects the artist's love of jazz music.
His artwork is in the permanent collections of:
Musée de Montreux in Switzerland
National Jazz Museum in Harlem, NY
Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Longview,TX
High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA
Harriet Tubman Museum in Macon, GA
Philadelphia African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA
African American Museum in Dallas, TX
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia