A Life on Paper: Drawings and Lithographs of John Thomas Biggers
(Exhibition catalog)
2006Theisen, Olive Jensen
192 pages (color)
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John Anansa Thomas Biggers PUBLICATIONS
1924 Gastonia, North Carolina - 2001 Houston, Texas. Known for: Narrative mural painting-African-American subjects.
Following are excerpts from The New York Times obituary, January 30, 2001, by Holland Cotter:. John Biggers, a painter, printmaker and sculptor known for his meticulous depictions of African and... Read full biography
Following are excerpts from The New York Times obituary, January 30, 2001, by Holland Cotter:. John Biggers, a painter, printmaker and sculptor known for his meticulous depictions of African and African-American life, died on Thursday at his home in Houston. He was 76. The cause was a heart attack,... Read full biography
Following are excerpts from The New York Times obituary, January 30, 2001, by Holland Cotter:. John Biggers, a painter, printmaker and sculptor known for his meticulous depictions of African and African-American life, died on Thursday at his home in Houston. He was 76. The cause was a heart attack, said Carl Ards, Mr. Biggers's brother-in- law. Mr. Biggers's art, often in the form of public murals, was grounded in the humanistic spirit and social realist narrative style of the 1930's and 40's.... Read full biography
Following are excerpts from The New York Times obituary, January 30, 2001, by Holland Cotter:. John Biggers, a painter, printmaker and sculptor known for his meticulous depictions of African and African-American life, died on Thursday at his home in Houston. He was 76. The cause was a heart attack, said Carl Ards, Mr. Biggers's brother-in- law. Mr. Biggers's art, often in the form of public murals, was grounded in the humanistic spirit and social realist narrative style of the 1930's and 40's. Over the years it grew increasingly emblematic, with figures and architectural forms arranged in intricate patterns that suggested quilts, African textiles and modernist geometric abstraction. Mr. Biggers was born in Gastonia, N.C., in 1924, the... Read full biography
Following are excerpts from The New York Times obituary, January 30, 2001, by Holland Cotter:. John Biggers, a painter, printmaker and sculptor known for his meticulous depictions of African and African-American life, died on Thursday at his home in Houston. He was 76. The cause was a heart attack, said Carl Ards, Mr. Biggers's brother-in- law. Mr. Biggers's art, often in the form of public murals, was grounded in the humanistic spirit and social realist narrative style of the 1930's and 40's. Over the years it grew increasingly emblematic, with figures and architectural forms arranged in intricate patterns that suggested quilts, African textiles and modernist geometric abstraction. Mr. Biggers was born in Gastonia, N.C., in 1924, the youngest of seven children, in a house built by his father, a schoolteacher, farmer and Baptist mi... Read full biography
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A Life on Paper: Drawings and Lithographs of John Thomas Biggers
2006The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport'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)Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997Marquis Who's Who1,515 pagesBlack Art and Culture in the 20th Century
1997Powell, Richard J256 pages (color)American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996Hopps, Walter (others)320 pages (color)The Art of John Biggers View from the Upper Romm
1995
(Exhibition catalog)Wardlaw, Alvia184 pages (color)African American Art
1994
(Exhibition catalog)San Antonio Museum of Art67 pages (color)A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
1993Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson542 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesFree Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art
1993Perry, Regina A203 pages (color)Black Art/Ancestral Legacy
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Dallas Museum of Fine Art305 pages (color)50 Texas Artists: A Critical Selection
1986Carlozzi, Annette (Author); Gay Block, (Portraits)120 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesFresh Paint: The Houston School The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
1985Rose, Barbara; Susie Kalil256 pages (color)Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984Opitz, Glenn B (editor)656 pagesTexas Images & Visions
1983
(Exhibition catalog)Goetzmann, William/B Reese168 pages (color)Art: African American
1978Lewis, Samella246 pages (color)Art & Ethnics Background for Teaching Youth in a Pluralistic Society
1977Grigsby, Eugene Jr.147 pagesTwo Centuries of Black American Art
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Driskell, David C221 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesAfro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973Cederholm, Theresa Dickason348 pagesBlack Dimensions in Contemporary American Art
1971Atkinson, J Edward127 pages (color)Texas Painting and Sculpture: 20th Century
1971
(Exhibition catalog)Bywaters, Jerry (Introduction)96 pagesSeventeen Black Artists
1971Fax, Elton C306 pagesDrawing Society National Exhibiti 1965
1965
(Exhibition catalog)Drawing Society108 pagesAnanse the Web of Life in Africa
1962Biggers, John119 pagesAmerican Negro Art
1960Dover, Cedric186 pages (color)