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Born 1957 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Known for: Regional landscape, black figure and genre painting.
An award-winning painter of figures depicting black middle and lower class people and landscapes from his southern background and other personal experiences, Dean Mitchell is inspired by grizzled... Read full biography
An award-winning painter of figures depicting black middle and lower class people and landscapes from his southern background and other personal experiences, Dean Mitchell is inspired by grizzled laborers, time-worn elderly faces, and persons like himself who have lived in a segregated environment.... Read full biography
An award-winning painter of figures depicting black middle and lower class people and landscapes from his southern background and other personal experiences, Dean Mitchell is inspired by grizzled laborers, time-worn elderly faces, and persons like himself who have lived in a segregated environment. His career hit an upswing 2002 when art critic Michael Kimmelman wrote in The New York Times that Mitchell was 'a virtual modern-day Vermeer'. Dean Mitchell was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but... Read full biography
An award-winning painter of figures depicting black middle and lower class people and landscapes from his southern background and other personal experiences, Dean Mitchell is inspired by grizzled laborers, time-worn elderly faces, and persons like himself who have lived in a segregated environment. His career hit an upswing 2002 when art critic Michael Kimmelman wrote in The New York Times that Mitchell was 'a virtual modern-day Vermeer'. Dean Mitchell was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but grew up in Quincy, Florida, a tobacco growing town. His mother, Hazel, was unmarried and worked as a dietician, and he was basically raised by his grandmother who encouraged his art talent and who bought him paints from the time he was a child.... Read full biography
An award-winning painter of figures depicting black middle and lower class people and landscapes from his southern background and other personal experiences, Dean Mitchell is inspired by grizzled laborers, time-worn elderly faces, and persons like himself who have lived in a segregated environment. His career hit an upswing 2002 when art critic Michael Kimmelman wrote in The New York Times that Mitchell was 'a virtual modern-day Vermeer'. Dean Mitchell was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but grew up in Quincy, Florida, a tobacco growing town. His mother, Hazel, was unmarried and worked as a dietician, and he was basically raised by his grandmother who encouraged his art talent and who bought him paints from the time he was a child. Although his mother was hesitant about supporting his talent at first, she has become "his biggest fan". (Targos). He got his formal art... Read full biography
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Keywords (41)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Art Association
- •American Society of Casein Artists
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
- •Artists of America
- •Knickerbocker Artists-
- •Miniature Artists of America
- •National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic
- •National Watercolor Society
- •Santa Fe Watercolor Society
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •Hallmark Card Artist, Kansas City, Missouri
- •Miniature Specialty
- •Watercolor Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Allied Artists of America
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
- •Artists of America, Denver Rotary Club
- •Arts for the Parks
Exhibition of Museum
- •Masters of the American West, Autry Center
Exhibition of Special Group
- •Great American Artists, Cincinnati