District Of Columbia, Maryland. 1905 - 1970
Figure-genre, portrait and still life painting
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1920 Brooklyn, New York - 1998 Copenhagen, Denmark. Known for: Black child figures playing, landscape, genre, animal, fowl painting, woodcuts.
WALTER HENRY WILLIAMS, JR. (1920-1998). Walter Henry Williams favorite subjects were black children playing in fields of flowers—reflective perhaps of his own restricted childhood and his lifelong... Read full biography
WALTER HENRY WILLIAMS, JR. (1920-1998). Walter Henry Williams favorite subjects were black children playing in fields of flowers—reflective perhaps of his own restricted childhood and his lifelong desire for freedom. His mother had encouraged his art making, but she died when he was age five; his... Read full biography
WALTER HENRY WILLIAMS, JR. (1920-1998). Walter Henry Williams favorite subjects were black children playing in fields of flowers—reflective perhaps of his own restricted childhood and his lifelong desire for freedom. His mother had encouraged his art making, but she died when he was age five; his father gained custody and was very strict. As a result, Williams became introverted, retreating into a dream world of his own making. Williams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up there, working... Read full biography
WALTER HENRY WILLIAMS, JR. (1920-1998). Walter Henry Williams favorite subjects were black children playing in fields of flowers—reflective perhaps of his own restricted childhood and his lifelong desire for freedom. His mother had encouraged his art making, but she died when he was age five; his father gained custody and was very strict. As a result, Williams became introverted, retreating into a dream world of his own making. Williams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up there, working as a house painter until he was drafted into the United States Army. He served from 1942 to 1945 in France and was assigned the grim task of burying soldiers. Using the GI Bill, he went to the Brooklyn Museum Art School from 1951 until 1955 where... Read full biography
WALTER HENRY WILLIAMS, JR. (1920-1998). Walter Henry Williams favorite subjects were black children playing in fields of flowers—reflective perhaps of his own restricted childhood and his lifelong desire for freedom. His mother had encouraged his art making, but she died when he was age five; his father gained custody and was very strict. As a result, Williams became introverted, retreating into a dream world of his own making. Williams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up there, working as a house painter until he was drafted into the United States Army. He served from 1942 to 1945 in France and was assigned the grim task of burying soldiers. Using the GI Bill, he went to the Brooklyn Museum Art School from 1951 until 1955 where his instructors were Ben Shahn and Reuben Tam. He was given a scholarship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting a... Read full biography
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Pennsylvania. 1937 - 2004
Ethnic genre painting, sculpture, art education
California, Maryland. 1920 - 2018
Installation, mixed media
Massachusetts. 1877 - 1968
Sculpture-figure, illustration
New York, Florida. 1892 - 1962
African-American portrait sculpture, educator
Massachusetts, California. 1922 - 2015
Genre-figure painting, sculpture, graphics
Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut. 1887 - 1948
Portrait painting of black Americans and still-life, teaching
New York. 1930 - 2024
African-American themed mixed-media sculpture, painting. drawing, figiures
California, Louisiana. 1925 - 2015
Afro-American figurative and landscape painting, art collecting
New York / Europe, Netherlands. 1927 - 2015
Abstract painting, collage, jazz music motif
California, Ohio. Born 1943
African-American themed collage, figure and genre painting
California, District Of Columbia. 1909 - 1987
Abstract expression painting, illustrator
New York / Belgium. 1910 - 1992
Abstract painting, printmaking and murals
New York, New Jersey. 1938 - 2020
Modernist figurative imagery and portrait painting, printmaking, collage, textile art
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1914 - 1985
Harlequin figure portrait paintings, clownsset design, playwright
Maryland, Indiana. 1913 - 1993
Abstract-op art expressionist painting, art restoration and conservation
Illinois, California, Georgia. 1931 - 1981
African-American figure painting and genre, lithographs
District Of Columbia, Massachusetts / Haiti. 1905 - 1998
African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching
New York, California. 1924 - 2024
Modernist landscape-imagery
New York. 1928 - 2000
Modernist figure-images, illustrator-comic; educator
Illinois, Louisiana. 1917 - 2010
Linocut prints, modernist still life, figure and genre painting, teaching
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1927 - 1980
Painter-modern afro-primitive, animal
California. Born 1926
Assemblage, collage-racial issues, cultural artifacts
New York, North Carolina. 1907 - 1977
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
California, North Carolina. 1938 - 2009
African-American figure, genre and sports painting
Massachusetts / Russian Federation. 1921 - 2007
Modernist genre and figure painting, drawing, commercial art, printmaking
Virginia, Texas. 1924 - 2001
Narrative mural painting-African-American subjects
New York, Georgia. 1944 - 2020
Abstract symbolist mixed-media figure and genre easel and mural painting, teaching
Michigan, South Carolina. 1924 - 2021
Abstract expressionist and modernist genre and figure painting, assemblage
Nebraska, Minnesota. 1914 - 1977
Ceramics, terra cotta pottery, portrait and elongated figure sculpture, teaching
Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico. 1915 - 1999
Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching
California, Georgia. 1934 - 2002
Sculptor and painting-Black American themes, commercial artist