Rhode Island, New York. 1917 - 2005
Textile print design, abstract expressionism, figure and portrait painting
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1924 New Orleans, Louisiana - 2022 Torance, California. Known for: Printmaking, modernist figure and genre painting, art historian.
Artist and art historian Samella Lewis is renowned for her contributions to African American art and art history. Born on February 27, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lewis's heritage led her to... Read full biography
Artist and art historian Samella Lewis is renowned for her contributions to African American art and art history. Born on February 27, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lewis's heritage led her to view art as an essential expression of the community and its struggles. Lewis began her art career as a... Read full biography
Artist and art historian Samella Lewis is renowned for her contributions to African American art and art history. Born on February 27, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lewis's heritage led her to view art as an essential expression of the community and its struggles. Lewis began her art career as a student at Dillard University, where she was instructed by the African American sculptor Elizabeth Catlett. At one of her instructor's suggestions, Lewis transferred to Hampton Institute, where she... Read full biography
Artist and art historian Samella Lewis is renowned for her contributions to African American art and art history. Born on February 27, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lewis's heritage led her to view art as an essential expression of the community and its struggles. Lewis began her art career as a student at Dillard University, where she was instructed by the African American sculptor Elizabeth Catlett. At one of her instructor's suggestions, Lewis transferred to Hampton Institute, where she earned her B.A. degree in art history in 1945. Lewis completed her graduate studies at the Ohio State University, earning her M.A. degree in 1948, and in 1951 she became the first African American woman to receive her doctorate in fine arts and art... Read full biography
Artist and art historian Samella Lewis is renowned for her contributions to African American art and art history. Born on February 27, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lewis's heritage led her to view art as an essential expression of the community and its struggles. Lewis began her art career as a student at Dillard University, where she was instructed by the African American sculptor Elizabeth Catlett. At one of her instructor's suggestions, Lewis transferred to Hampton Institute, where she earned her B.A. degree in art history in 1945. Lewis completed her graduate studies at the Ohio State University, earning her M.A. degree in 1948, and in 1951 she became the first African American woman to receive her doctorate in fine arts and art history. In order to publish Black Artists on Art (1969), Lewis founded the first African American-owned art publishing house, Contem... Read full biography
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New York. 1928 - 2000
Modernist figure-images, illustrator-comic; educator
New York / Europe, Netherlands. 1927 - 2015
Abstract painting, collage, jazz music motif
Alabama, Pennsylvania, California. 1915 - 2001
Modernist African-American genre and figure painting, printmaking
Florida. Born 1936
Watercolors, collage, woodcuts
District Of Columbia / Ethiopia. 1937 - 2003
Painting
New York. 1929 - 2003
Mod urban-ethnic imagery, etching
New York, Florida. 1892 - 1962
African-American portrait sculpture, educator
District Of Columbia, Massachusetts / Haiti. 1905 - 1998
African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching
New York, North Carolina. 1907 - 1977
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
Connecticut, New York. 1945 - 2017
Black portrait figure social commentary painting
Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico. 1915 - 1999
Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching
Pennsylvania / Canada. 1893 - 1965
Rural landscape and social realist painting and printmaking
New York, Georgia. 1930 - 2006
Ethnic genre painting, abstraction, collage
New York, South Carolina / Africa. 1928 - 2013
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, gallery owner
Virginia, Texas. 1924 - 2001
Narrative mural painting-African-American subjects
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1914 - 1985
Harlequin figure portrait paintings, clownsset design, playwright
New York, Maine / France. 1890 - 1973
African-American figure, ethnic urban genre
Michigan, New York. 1935 - 2005
Geometric abstract painting, collage reliefs
District Of Columbia, New York / Mexico. 1915 - 2012
Abstract sculpture, modernist figure and portrait painting, graphics
California, Massachusetts. 1888 - 1967
Mod figure, sculptor, graphics, mural
Illinois, Indiana / Haiti. 1884 - 1964
Portrait, mural, genre-Haiti and landscape painting
United States. 1933 - 2003
Painter, illustrator, writer, designer
District Of Columbia. 1891 - 1978
Non objective-optical imagery painting, teaching
Illinois, New York, California. 1918 - 1979
Black-American figure and genre and mural painting
Georgia, New York / France. 1900 - 1980
Southern poverty images-paintings and history murals
New York. 1909 - 1979
Non objective, ethnic genre-view painting
District Of Columbia, Kentucky. 1933 - 2022
Abstract color field and drape painting, collage, graphics
Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1937 - 1966
Figurative expressionist painting, religion
Pennsylvania, Kansas / France. 1859 - 1937
Painting-religious, Orientalism, genre, figure, landscape
New York, New Jersey. 1917 - 2000
Modernist naive urban genre-figure painting
Tennessee, New York / France. 1901 - 1979
Lyrical abstract painting, city scenes-jazz