North Carolina, Louisiana. 1916 - 2006
Sculpture, painting, prints, teaching
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1925 Sanford, North Carolina - 2022 Greensboro, North Carolina. Known for: Painting, graphic art, teaching.
JAMES CARROLL MCMILLAN (1925-2022). In a 2009 reflection, James McMillan wrote that he had “understood quite early that my art could not be about ‘Art for Art’s sake’ only. It had to be about Life... Read full biography
JAMES CARROLL MCMILLAN (1925-2022). In a 2009 reflection, James McMillan wrote that he had “understood quite early that my art could not be about ‘Art for Art’s sake’ only. It had to be about Life itself and at its fullest, as we live it and come to understand it.” For nearly seventy years as a... Read full biography
JAMES CARROLL MCMILLAN (1925-2022). In a 2009 reflection, James McMillan wrote that he had “understood quite early that my art could not be about ‘Art for Art’s sake’ only. It had to be about Life itself and at its fullest, as we live it and come to understand it.” For nearly seventy years as a practitioner and educator, McMillan boldly addressed the issues of racism and injustice on canvas and in the classroom, imbuing these daunting themes with notes of resilience and seeking always to put... Read full biography
JAMES CARROLL MCMILLAN (1925-2022). In a 2009 reflection, James McMillan wrote that he had “understood quite early that my art could not be about ‘Art for Art’s sake’ only. It had to be about Life itself and at its fullest, as we live it and come to understand it.” For nearly seventy years as a practitioner and educator, McMillan boldly addressed the issues of racism and injustice on canvas and in the classroom, imbuing these daunting themes with notes of resilience and seeking always to put his “art to purpose.” . James McMillan’s parents—college graduates determined to confront prejudice in the Jim Crow South—were the exception, rather than the rule, in Sanford, North Carolina. Through their work as teachers in the public school system... Read full biography
JAMES CARROLL MCMILLAN (1925-2022). In a 2009 reflection, James McMillan wrote that he had “understood quite early that my art could not be about ‘Art for Art’s sake’ only. It had to be about Life itself and at its fullest, as we live it and come to understand it.” For nearly seventy years as a practitioner and educator, McMillan boldly addressed the issues of racism and injustice on canvas and in the classroom, imbuing these daunting themes with notes of resilience and seeking always to put his “art to purpose.” . James McMillan’s parents—college graduates determined to confront prejudice in the Jim Crow South—were the exception, rather than the rule, in Sanford, North Carolina. Through their work as teachers in the public school system and leadership of the local NAACP chapter, McMillian learned that education and a sense of civic responsibility were essential to pe... Read full biography
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California, Louisiana. 1925 - 2015
Afro-American figurative and landscape painting, art collecting
Maryland, District Of Columbia. 1931 - 2020
Abstract painting-African American themes, collage, non objective, graphics
District Of Columbia, Maryland. 1905 - 1970
Figure-genre, portrait and still life painting
New York. 1928 - 2000
Modernist figure-images, illustrator-comic; educator
New York, Tennessee. 1904 - 1991
Street genre, figure, portrait, mural
New York, Louisiana, Michigan / France. 1926 - 2019
Shaped canvas, abstract stain painting, collage
New York, California, Mississippi / Jamaica. 1901 - 1989
Expresssionist monument and figure sculpture
New York, Kansas. 1899 - 1979
African-American genre painting, illustration, mural
New York, North Carolina. 1907 - 1977
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico. 1915 - 1999
Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching
District Of Columbia, Massachusetts / Haiti. 1905 - 1998
African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching
Michigan, New York. 1935 - 2005
Geometric abstract painting, collage reliefs
New York, Georgia. 1930 - 2006
Ethnic genre painting, abstraction, collage
District Of Columbia. 1891 - 1978
Non objective-optical imagery painting, teaching
New York. 1909 - 1979
Non objective, ethnic genre-view painting
Tennessee, New York / France. 1901 - 1979
Lyrical abstract painting, city scenes-jazz
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Brunswick / Canada. 1828 - 1901
Idealized landscape, marine, portrait and still life painting
District Of Columbia, New York / Mexico. 1915 - 2012
Abstract sculpture, modernist figure and portrait painting, graphics
Pennsylvania, Kansas / France. 1859 - 1937
Painting-religious, Orientalism, genre, figure, landscape
District Of Columbia, Kentucky. 1933 - 2022
Abstract color field and drape painting, collage, graphics
New York, North Carolina. 1911 - 1988
Modernist African-American figure and landscape painting, collage