Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
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1925 Detroit, Michigan - 1993 Detroit, Michigan. Known for: African-American male figure and portrait painting, large- murals, social commentary.
LeRoy Foster (1925–1993) was an African-American painter from Detroit, Michigan. He is best known for the large murals he painted on the walls of Detroit institutions, such as “The Life & Times of... Read full biography
LeRoy Foster (1925–1993) was an African-American painter from Detroit, Michigan. He is best known for the large murals he painted on the walls of Detroit institutions, such as “The Life & Times of Frederick Douglass, at the Detroit Public Library’s Frederick Douglass Branch, and Renaissance City,... Read full biography
LeRoy Foster (1925–1993) was an African-American painter from Detroit, Michigan. He is best known for the large murals he painted on the walls of Detroit institutions, such as “The Life & Times of Frederick Douglass, at the Detroit Public Library’s Frederick Douglass Branch, and Renaissance City, at Cass Technical High School. He also painted portraits of prominent figures such as singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. Foster was born in Detroit on May 8, 1925, and lived there his... Read full biography
LeRoy Foster (1925–1993) was an African-American painter from Detroit, Michigan. He is best known for the large murals he painted on the walls of Detroit institutions, such as “The Life & Times of Frederick Douglass, at the Detroit Public Library’s Frederick Douglass Branch, and Renaissance City, at Cass Technical High School. He also painted portraits of prominent figures such as singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. Foster was born in Detroit on May 8, 1925, and lived there his entire life, except for a brief time when he studied art in Europe in the 1940s. Foster began drawing at age five or six, and was an exceptional art student, recognized by teachers and peers at an early age. “I was nice up until I was 12,” he recalled,... Read full biography
LeRoy Foster (1925–1993) was an African-American painter from Detroit, Michigan. He is best known for the large murals he painted on the walls of Detroit institutions, such as “The Life & Times of Frederick Douglass, at the Detroit Public Library’s Frederick Douglass Branch, and Renaissance City, at Cass Technical High School. He also painted portraits of prominent figures such as singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. Foster was born in Detroit on May 8, 1925, and lived there his entire life, except for a brief time when he studied art in Europe in the 1940s. Foster began drawing at age five or six, and was an exceptional art student, recognized by teachers and peers at an early age. “I was nice up until I was 12,” he recalled, “then all hell broke loose. I was possessed by demons. and one way to exorcise those demons was to paint.” In 1939, at a... Read full biography
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