California, District Of Columbia. 1909 - 1987
Abstract expression painting, illustrator
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1919 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 2003 Stockholm, Sweden. Known for: Figurative abstraction.
Herbert Gentry's subject matter is inherently social, and nearly always peopled. He was deeply influenced by jazz, which emerges as a powerful presence in the rhythms of his paintings. His figures... Read full biography
Herbert Gentry's subject matter is inherently social, and nearly always peopled. He was deeply influenced by jazz, which emerges as a powerful presence in the rhythms of his paintings. His figures are outlined by color - breathing and gregarious, often an inherent sweetness emerges with the... Read full biography
Herbert Gentry's subject matter is inherently social, and nearly always peopled. He was deeply influenced by jazz, which emerges as a powerful presence in the rhythms of his paintings. His figures are outlined by color - breathing and gregarious, often an inherent sweetness emerges with the childlike openness. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Mr. Gentry was raised in Harlem during its heyday, the highly creative period before World War II. He served as a member of the Armed Forces during that period,... Read full biography
Herbert Gentry's subject matter is inherently social, and nearly always peopled. He was deeply influenced by jazz, which emerges as a powerful presence in the rhythms of his paintings. His figures are outlined by color - breathing and gregarious, often an inherent sweetness emerges with the childlike openness. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Mr. Gentry was raised in Harlem during its heyday, the highly creative period before World War II. He served as a member of the Armed Forces during that period, and his commitment to art was defined by his return to Paris in 1946 where he studied painting. Releasing his experiences upon the canvas, his autobiographical elements are propelled through feeling in spontaneous painting. "I paint what I experience,... Read full biography
Herbert Gentry's subject matter is inherently social, and nearly always peopled. He was deeply influenced by jazz, which emerges as a powerful presence in the rhythms of his paintings. His figures are outlined by color - breathing and gregarious, often an inherent sweetness emerges with the childlike openness. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Mr. Gentry was raised in Harlem during its heyday, the highly creative period before World War II. He served as a member of the Armed Forces during that period, and his commitment to art was defined by his return to Paris in 1946 where he studied painting. Releasing his experiences upon the canvas, his autobiographical elements are propelled through feeling in spontaneous painting. "I paint what I experience, who I am, in the Black world, especially in America, there's a thing that you can't forget where you came from, y... Read full biography
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New York. 1914 - 2005
African-American figure, political genre
New York, New Jersey. 1920 - 2003
Mod imagery printmaking, educator
New York / Europe, Netherlands. 1927 - 2015
Abstract painting, collage, jazz music motif
New York. 1928 - 2000
Modernist figure-images, illustrator-comic; educator
Alabama, Pennsylvania, California. 1915 - 2001
Modernist African-American genre and figure painting, printmaking
New York, North Carolina. 1907 - 1977
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
New York, Florida. 1892 - 1962
African-American portrait sculpture, educator
New York, Tennessee. 1904 - 1991
Street genre, figure, portrait, mural
Illinois, Georgia. 1913 - 1996
Female figure, jazz musicians, portrait and genre painting
Michigan, New York. 1935 - 2005
Geometric abstract painting, collage reliefs
Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico. 1915 - 1999
Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching
New York, Georgia. 1930 - 2006
Ethnic genre painting, abstraction, collage
New York. 1909 - 1979
Non objective, ethnic genre-view painting
District Of Columbia. 1891 - 1978
Non objective-optical imagery painting, teaching
District Of Columbia, New York / Mexico. 1915 - 2012
Abstract sculpture, modernist figure and portrait painting, graphics
Georgia, New York / France. 1900 - 1980
Southern poverty images-paintings and history murals
Illinois, New York, California. 1918 - 1979
Black-American figure and genre and mural painting
Tennessee, New York / France. 1901 - 1979
Lyrical abstract painting, city scenes-jazz
District Of Columbia, Massachusetts / Haiti. 1905 - 1998
African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching
District Of Columbia, Kentucky. 1933 - 2022
Abstract color field and drape painting, collage, graphics
Netherlands, Sweden, France, Belgium. 1922 - 2010
Mixed-media abstraction, sculpture
California. 1955 - 2024
Drawing, painting, murals
New York, North Carolina. 1911 - 1988
Modernist African-American figure and landscape painting, collage
Italy. 1924 - 2003
Collage of military figures, assemblage
Sweden. 1895 - 1971
Painting
Sweden. 1934 - 2017
Figures in elegant settings-painting
Sweden. 1905 - 1993
Folk art painting, abstract figures
Sweden, France. 1862 - 1914
Painting
Sweden. 1913 - 2004
Painting
Sweden. 1895 - 1974
Painting
Sweden, Italy. 1888 - 1973
Expressive, cubist and fauve painting