Known for his ship portrait paintings, Joe Selby was born in Mobile, Alabama, and settled in Miami, Florida. He was an African-American painter whose subjects were the ships and yachts that docked at... Read full biography
Known for his ship portrait paintings, Joe Selby was born in Mobile, Alabama, and settled in Miami, Florida. He was an African-American painter whose subjects were the ships and yachts that docked at the Miami city pier between 1921 and 1959. As a twelve-year old deck hand, he had lost a leg in a... Read full biography
Known for his ship portrait paintings, Joe Selby was born in Mobile, Alabama, and settled in Miami, Florida. He was an African-American painter whose subjects were the ships and yachts that docked at the Miami city pier between 1921 and 1959. As a twelve-year old deck hand, he had lost a leg in a shipboard accident, but during the 1930s, his love of marine activity led him to join a steamer out of Mobile. Source: . Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art... Read full biography
Known for his ship portrait paintings, Joe Selby was born in Mobile, Alabama, and settled in Miami, Florida. He was an African-American painter whose subjects were the ships and yachts that docked at the Miami city pier between 1921 and 1959. As a twelve-year old deck hand, he had lost a leg in a shipboard accident, but during the 1930s, his love of marine activity led him to join a steamer out of Mobile. Source: . Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art... Read full biography
Known for his ship portrait paintings, Joe Selby was born in Mobile, Alabama, and settled in Miami, Florida. He was an African-American painter whose subjects were the ships and yachts that docked at the Miami city pier between 1921 and 1959. As a twelve-year old deck hand, he had lost a leg in a shipboard accident, but during the 1930s, his love of marine activity led him to join a steamer out of Mobile. Source: . Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (3)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes