Georgia. Born 1944
Abstract painting
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1912 Chicago, Illinois - 1987. Known for: Abstract figurative painting, cubism.
Walter Sanford, also known as Sanford, (30 January 1912 – 3 July 1987), was an American artist who spent almost every day of his adult life painting in Chicago and Detroit. He was one of the first... Read full biography
Walter Sanford, also known as Sanford, (30 January 1912 – 3 July 1987), was an American artist who spent almost every day of his adult life painting in Chicago and Detroit. He was one of the first and only black social realism and abstract expressionist artists of the 20th century. He was heralded... Read full biography
Walter Sanford, also known as Sanford, (30 January 1912 – 3 July 1987), was an American artist who spent almost every day of his adult life painting in Chicago and Detroit. He was one of the first and only black social realism and abstract expressionist artists of the 20th century. He was heralded “Black Picasso” and “Detroit’s Picasso” for his cubist figure paintings and in 1958 he won the Prix de Paris La Grande Saison de Paris at the Raymond Duncan Galleries. He opened the first black-owned... Read full biography
Walter Sanford, also known as Sanford, (30 January 1912 – 3 July 1987), was an American artist who spent almost every day of his adult life painting in Chicago and Detroit. He was one of the first and only black social realism and abstract expressionist artists of the 20th century. He was heralded “Black Picasso” and “Detroit’s Picasso” for his cubist figure paintings and in 1958 he won the Prix de Paris La Grande Saison de Paris at the Raymond Duncan Galleries. He opened the first black-owned art gallery and exhibited at the first Negro Art Exhibition and Negro History Week in Detroit. Sanford was hailed as one of Michigan’s foremost modern art painters in 1952. Sanford was part of the Second Wave (1941-1960) of the Black Chicago... Read full biography
Walter Sanford, also known as Sanford, (30 January 1912 – 3 July 1987), was an American artist who spent almost every day of his adult life painting in Chicago and Detroit. He was one of the first and only black social realism and abstract expressionist artists of the 20th century. He was heralded “Black Picasso” and “Detroit’s Picasso” for his cubist figure paintings and in 1958 he won the Prix de Paris La Grande Saison de Paris at the Raymond Duncan Galleries. He opened the first black-owned art gallery and exhibited at the first Negro Art Exhibition and Negro History Week in Detroit. Sanford was hailed as one of Michigan’s foremost modern art painters in 1952. Sanford was part of the Second Wave (1941-1960) of the Black Chicago Renaissance of African-American artists and embraced a range of styles and influences. An expressionist until 1945, Sanford was clearly influenced b... Read full biography
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Maryland. Born 1927
Painting, ceramics, art education
Iowa, Missouri. Born 1914
Wood sculpture, masks, ceramics, graphics, painting
District Of Columbia. 1943 - 1992
Abstract expression, geometric images and interior scene paintings
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1927 - 1980
Painter-modern afro-primitive, animal
Illinois. 1928 - 2006
Political and racial themed collage, assemblage, geometric abstract painting, teaching
Illinois, Missouri. 1909 - 1996
Figure, street-landscape, genre
California, District Of Columbia. 1909 - 1987
Abstract expression painting, illustrator
Illinois, Louisiana. 1917 - 2010
Linocut prints, modernist still life, figure and genre painting, teaching
California, Maryland. 1920 - 2018
Installation, mixed media
District Of Columbia, Maryland. 1905 - 1970
Figure-genre, portrait and still life painting
Alabama, Pennsylvania, California. 1915 - 2001
Modernist African-American genre and figure painting, printmaking
New York, Illinois. Born 1929
Abstract painting, elongated figures, playful children, African-American themes
Illinois, Wisconsin. 1905 - 2002
Non objective painter, graphics
Illinois, Georgia. 1913 - 1996
Female figure, jazz musicians, portrait and genre painting
Pennsylvania. 1937 - 2004
Ethnic genre painting, sculpture, art education
New York. 1928 - 2000
Modernist figure-images, illustrator-comic; educator
New York, Tennessee / Denmark. 1920 - 1998
Black child figures playing, landscape, genre, animal, fowl painting, woodcuts
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1914 - 1985
Harlequin figure portrait paintings, clownsset design, playwright
Illinois, Indiana / Haiti. 1884 - 1964
Portrait, mural, genre-Haiti and landscape painting
Indiana. 1891 - 1968
Portrait, landscape, floral and genre painting
California, Massachusetts. 1888 - 1967
Mod figure, sculptor, graphics, mural
New York, California, Mississippi / Jamaica. 1901 - 1989
Expresssionist monument and figure sculpture
New York, Tennessee. 1904 - 1991
Street genre, figure, portrait, mural
New York, North Carolina. 1907 - 1977
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
Massachusetts, New Jersey. 1910 - 2007
Black-American street genre, prints
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
Virginia, Texas. 1924 - 2001
Narrative mural painting-African-American subjects
Connecticut, New York. 1847 - 1923
Fruit and floral still life painting
Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico. 1915 - 1999
Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching
Illinois, New York, California. 1918 - 1979
Black-American figure and genre and mural painting