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Russell Lee was an American photographer best known for his depression-era work done for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). A bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering led to a job as…
Read MoreDonna Morin was born in Michigan and currently resides in Southern California. She is a painter, printmaker, and collage artist inspired by water, light, and air, which to her, represent…
Read MoreFred Kabotie was a Native American artist who worked in painting, silversmithing, and pottery. He also was an educator, a writer and a curator. Born into the tight-knit Hopi community…
Read MoreTheodore Wores is known for his paintings of Hawai’i and Japan, places that he visited when few Americans had traveled there. ‘The Lei Maker,’ in the permanent collection of the…
Read MoreOscar Edward Berninghaus was one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists. Born in Saint Louis, he sketched constantly as a child, his father’s lithography business had spawned…
Read MoreMilton Avery is known for the large simplified forms in beautiful colors that described a scene— landscape, portrait, or still life—without focusing on the details. He and his wife, artist…
Read MoreArthur Drooker is a historian with a camera. He has written and directed Emmy Award–winning television documentaries about some of the unique historical sites in the western hemisphere. To capture…
Read MorePhotography has been an abiding passion for Ehrlich since childhood. After many years of taking intra-operative surgical photographs, he began focusing on landscape photography. He has had a life-long infatuation…
Read MoreHarry grew up and lives in Los Angeles. He is a 5th generation Angelino. His ancestors arrived in the 1880’s and helped grow L.A. into a great city. He is…
Read MoreDavid Samuel Robbins is a Seattle based photojournalist, writer, publisher, workshop instructor and expedition leader. He specializes in projects concerning traditional cultures, documentary / street photography and adventure travel. David…
Read MoreDavid Driskell (1931-2020) was one of the most influential American artists of the 20th and 21st century, known for his powerful portrayals of African American people and the impact they…
Read MoreGerald Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1941. Earning his Masters of Fine Arts degree from Howard in 1976, he became a founding member of AfriCOBRA. His work as…
Read MoreCharles Alston (1907-1977) was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and was an African American painter, muralist, sculptor, teacher, and illustrator, who lived and worked in Harlem. After graduating high school…
Read MoreWithout any formal training, Bill Hutson began creating abstract paintings in the early 1960s while he was an assistant to Frank N. Ashley. This apprenticeship was Hutson’s introduction to fine…
Read MoreAbstract painter and sculptor Jack Whitten was born in Alabama in 1939. After enrolling as a pre med student, he realized that he could not stay in the south due…
Read MoreNanette Carter was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1954. After moving to New Jersey, she began to take art classes at the age of six. She attended Oberlin College and…
Read MoreNow based in Brooklyn, Lamerol A. Gatewood was born in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1954. He developed an interest in art while in high school. He attended Lindenwood University in…
Read MoreRobert Morris (born February 9, 1931, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along…
Read MoreRichard Serra (born November 2, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art…
Read MoreBorn in 1933 in Tupelo, Mississippi, Sam Gilliam is a celebrated African American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. In the 1950s and 1960s, Gilliam was involved with the…
Read MoreBorn around the turn of the century in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minor White was a prominent figure in mid-century American photography as a photographer, poet, critic, and educator. White’s early childhood…
Read MoreMary Edmonia Lewis was the first female sculptor of African American and Native American heritage to gain professional and global recognition. Born to a freed Afro-Haitian father and a Chippewa…
Read MoreMost commonly associated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960’s and 1970s, Barbara Jones-Hogu (1938-2017) spent her life deeply rooted in Chicago. Born in the city and spending a…
Read MoreAlma Thomas was an African American painter best known for her abstract paintings and Expressionist style. Her exuberant work is noteworthy for their pattern, rhythm, color. She was born in…
Read MoreNew York High-Fashion Photographer Toni Frissell (1907-1988) made her mark as one of the first photographers to capture women in both wartime and high fashion settings. She began her career…
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