District Of Columbia, Maryland. 1905 - 1970
Figure-genre, portrait and still life painting
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1887 Hartford, Connecticut - 1948. Known for: Portrait painting of black Americans and still-life, teaching.
In a time when African-American women were a silent force in American arts, Laura Wheeler Waring stepped out from the pew at her father's Hartford church and quietly set standards for dignity in... Read full biography
In a time when African-American women were a silent force in American arts, Laura Wheeler Waring stepped out from the pew at her father's Hartford church and quietly set standards for dignity in portraiture. Of her work, it was written: "Her portraits from the 1920s extend the bravura brush strokes... Read full biography
In a time when African-American women were a silent force in American arts, Laura Wheeler Waring stepped out from the pew at her father's Hartford church and quietly set standards for dignity in portraiture. Of her work, it was written: "Her portraits from the 1920s extend the bravura brush strokes and haughty poses of American painter John Singer Sargent using African-American subjects". (Taha) Her subjects included historian W.E.B. DuBois and artist Alma Thomas. In an era when few... Read full biography
In a time when African-American women were a silent force in American arts, Laura Wheeler Waring stepped out from the pew at her father's Hartford church and quietly set standards for dignity in portraiture. Of her work, it was written: "Her portraits from the 1920s extend the bravura brush strokes and haughty poses of American painter John Singer Sargent using African-American subjects". (Taha) Her subjects included historian W.E.B. DuBois and artist Alma Thomas. In an era when few African-American women attended school, Waring finished high school and college, and traveled extensively in Europe, although that was not a comfortable time for black women to be traveling in Europe. She returned to America to start an arts department in a... Read full biography
In a time when African-American women were a silent force in American arts, Laura Wheeler Waring stepped out from the pew at her father's Hartford church and quietly set standards for dignity in portraiture. Of her work, it was written: "Her portraits from the 1920s extend the bravura brush strokes and haughty poses of American painter John Singer Sargent using African-American subjects". (Taha) Her subjects included historian W.E.B. DuBois and artist Alma Thomas. In an era when few African-American women attended school, Waring finished high school and college, and traveled extensively in Europe, although that was not a comfortable time for black women to be traveling in Europe. She returned to America to start an arts department in a traditionally black college. Waring was a quiet but forceful voice among painters during the Harlem Renaissance with her realistic... Read full biography
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Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico. 1915 - 1999
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Alabama, Pennsylvania, California. 1915 - 2001
Modernist African-American genre and figure painting, printmaking
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African-American genre painting, illustration, mural
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Modernist landscape-imagery
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Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
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Abstract painting, collage, jazz music motif
Illinois, New York. 1938 - 2004
Non objective and other modernist imagery
Illinois, California, Georgia. 1931 - 1981
African-American figure painting and genre, lithographs