California African American Museum
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600 State Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037
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Born 1927 North Buxton, Ontario, Canada. Known for: Realist figure sculpture, painting, printmaking.
Born in Canada and based in Los Angeles and then Ruidoso, New Mexico, Artis Lane is a sculptor whose figurative work, including a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks, has brought her distinction. The Parks... Read full biography
Born in Canada and based in Los Angeles and then Ruidoso, New Mexico, Artis Lane is a sculptor whose figurative work, including a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks, has brought her distinction. The Parks sculpture was the first work by a black woman artist to be exhibited at the National Portrait... Read full biography
Born in Canada and based in Los Angeles and then Ruidoso, New Mexico, Artis Lane is a sculptor whose figurative work, including a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks, has brought her distinction. The Parks sculpture was the first work by a black woman artist to be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. She also designed the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Parks. Other subjects include Nelson Mandela, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Michael Jordan. But in 1988, Lane decided to... Read full biography
Born in Canada and based in Los Angeles and then Ruidoso, New Mexico, Artis Lane is a sculptor whose figurative work, including a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks, has brought her distinction. The Parks sculpture was the first work by a black woman artist to be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. She also designed the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Parks. Other subjects include Nelson Mandela, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Michael Jordan. But in 1988, Lane decided to choose subjects restricted to her personal vision of metaphysical truth--in other words, to create figurative works that were universal in meaning rather than specific persons. Many of her pieces since then are generic men and women with generalized... Read full biography
Born in Canada and based in Los Angeles and then Ruidoso, New Mexico, Artis Lane is a sculptor whose figurative work, including a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks, has brought her distinction. The Parks sculpture was the first work by a black woman artist to be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. She also designed the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Parks. Other subjects include Nelson Mandela, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Michael Jordan. But in 1988, Lane decided to choose subjects restricted to her personal vision of metaphysical truth--in other words, to create figurative works that were universal in meaning rather than specific persons. Many of her pieces since then are generic men and women with generalized titles such as First Man or New Woman, the latter which was exhibited in Washington DC at the Na... Read full biography
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All MuseumsDetroit Historical Museum
5401 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202-4009