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1893 Mobile, Alabama - 1960 Miami, Florida-. Known for: Marine-ship portrait, genre and landscape painting.
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
Joe Selby - Artist Info
About Joe Selby: Keywords
Keywords (15)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Genre Specialty
- •Marine Specialty
- •Miniature Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean