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Artis Lane PUBLICATIONS
Born 1927 North Buxton, Ontario, Canada. Known for: Realist figure sculpture, painting, printmaking.
Born in Canada and based in Los Angeles and then Ruidoso, New Mexico, Artis Lane is a sculptor whose figurative work, including a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks, has brought her distinction. The Parks... Read full biography
Born in Canada and based in Los Angeles and then Ruidoso, New Mexico, Artis Lane is a sculptor whose figurative work, including a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks, has brought her distinction. The Parks sculpture was the first work by a black woman artist to be exhibited at the National Portrait... Read full biography
Born in Canada and based in Los Angeles and then Ruidoso, New Mexico, Artis Lane is a sculptor whose figurative work, including a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks, has brought her distinction. The Parks sculpture was the first work by a black woman artist to be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. She also designed the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Parks. Other subjects include Nelson Mandela, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Michael Jordan. But in 1988, Lane decided to... Read full biography
Born in Canada and based in Los Angeles and then Ruidoso, New Mexico, Artis Lane is a sculptor whose figurative work, including a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks, has brought her distinction. The Parks sculpture was the first work by a black woman artist to be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. She also designed the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Parks. Other subjects include Nelson Mandela, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Michael Jordan. But in 1988, Lane decided to choose subjects restricted to her personal vision of metaphysical truth--in other words, to create figurative works that were universal in meaning rather than specific persons. Many of her pieces since then are generic men and women with generalized... Read full biography
Born in Canada and based in Los Angeles and then Ruidoso, New Mexico, Artis Lane is a sculptor whose figurative work, including a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks, has brought her distinction. The Parks sculpture was the first work by a black woman artist to be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. She also designed the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Parks. Other subjects include Nelson Mandela, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Michael Jordan. But in 1988, Lane decided to choose subjects restricted to her personal vision of metaphysical truth--in other words, to create figurative works that were universal in meaning rather than specific persons. Many of her pieces since then are generic men and women with generalized titles such as First Man or New Woman, the latter which was exhibited in Washington DC at the Na... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesCollecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
1998Taha, Halima270 pages (color)St. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
1997Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface)625 pagesAfro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973Cederholm, Theresa Dickason348 pages