California African American Museum
Exposition Park
600 State Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037
600 State Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037
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Museums page for David Clyde Driskell ((1931 - 2020)), known for Abstract painting-African American themes, collage, non objective, graphics. Showing 5 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1931 Eatonton, Georgia - 2020 Hyattsville, Maryland. Known for: Abstract painting-African American themes, collage, non objective, graphics.
A painter of images based on nature and African-American art, David Driskell is also a scholar, curator, teacher, and collector of African-American art. He credits much of his interest and success to... Read full biography
A painter of images based on nature and African-American art, David Driskell is also a scholar, curator, teacher, and collector of African-American art. He credits much of his interest and success to James A. Porter, an art history professor with whom he studied at Howard University. Driskell was... Read full biography
A painter of images based on nature and African-American art, David Driskell is also a scholar, curator, teacher, and collector of African-American art. He credits much of his interest and success to James A. Porter, an art history professor with whom he studied at Howard University. Driskell was born in Eatonton, Georgia, into a sharecropper family who moved when he was age five to North Carolina in the Appalachian mountains. He lived there until 1951, when he began attendance at Howard... Read full biography
A painter of images based on nature and African-American art, David Driskell is also a scholar, curator, teacher, and collector of African-American art. He credits much of his interest and success to James A. Porter, an art history professor with whom he studied at Howard University. Driskell was born in Eatonton, Georgia, into a sharecropper family who moved when he was age five to North Carolina in the Appalachian mountains. He lived there until 1951, when he began attendance at Howard University. His family had a tradition of artist creativity. His grandfather was a sculptor, carving ornaments from wood bark; his father, a Baptist minister, painted religious themes; and his mother was a quilter. After college, he took a teaching job at... Read full biography
A painter of images based on nature and African-American art, David Driskell is also a scholar, curator, teacher, and collector of African-American art. He credits much of his interest and success to James A. Porter, an art history professor with whom he studied at Howard University. Driskell was born in Eatonton, Georgia, into a sharecropper family who moved when he was age five to North Carolina in the Appalachian mountains. He lived there until 1951, when he began attendance at Howard University. His family had a tradition of artist creativity. His grandfather was a sculptor, carving ornaments from wood bark; his father, a Baptist minister, painted religious themes; and his mother was a quilter. After college, he took a teaching job at Talladega College in Alabama, and in 1962, began teaching at Howard University until the 1970s when he took over the chairmanship of the... Read full biography
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About David Clyde Driskell: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (5)
All MuseumsGreenville County Museum of Art
420 College Street
Greenville, SC 29601Howard University Gallery of Art
Howard University
2455 6th Street
Washington, DC 20059The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306University of Maryland Global Campus Arts Program
3501 University Boulevard East
Adelphi, MD 20783