printmaker
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Forgotten Printmaker in the New Deal Era
Dox Thrash (1893-1965) He was born in Griffin, Georgia, on March 22, 1893. Dox was the second of four children in his family. Thrash left home at the age of fifteen in search of work up north. He was part of the Great Migration (African American) looking for industrial work in the North. The first job that Thrash…
African American life, American artist, Army Veteran, Art Institute of Chicago, artist, Buffalo Soldiers, carborundum mezzotint, Carborundum printmaking, Chicago, Dox THrash, Elevator Operator, Federal Art Project, Georgia, mezzotint, National Negro Music Festival, New Deal Era, Pioneer, printmaker, Tra Club of Philadelphia, WPA, WWI
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Orozco’s impact on printmaking
Together with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Orozco was one of Mexico’s three most influential muralists. The most dedicated printmaker of the three “giants,” Orozco completed some thirty lithographs and twenty intaglios during his career, printing etchings in his own studio This print comes from a series of lithographs that Orozco created based on…
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Tribute exhibition for Denis Brihat (1928-2024)
is honored to present an online memorial exhibition for the celebrated French artist Denis Brihat, who passed away last month at the age of 96 in Bonnieux in the Luberon region of Provence, where he had lived for over sixty years. A pioneering figure in the history of photography, Brihat was one of the first to…
and National Foundation for Contemporary Art, Centre Pompidou, Denis Brihat, French artist, London; the Musée des Beaux Arts, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Marseille; and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MoMA; the Center for Creative Photography, Nailya Alexander Gallery, nature works, Neuchâtel; the Musée Cantini, Paris, photographer, photographic engraving, photographic paintings, printmaker, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie festival, Tucson; the Victoria and Albert Museum
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I have Always Worked Hard in America — Elizabeth Catlett
Artist Profile Elizabeth Catlett 1915 to 2012 The granddaughter of former slaves, Catlett was raised in Washington, D.C. Her father died before she was born and her mother held several jobs to raise three children. Refused admission to Carnegie Institute of Technology because of her race, Catlett enrolled at Howard University, where her teachers included…
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Barbara Jones-Hogu Printmaker
Barbara Jones-Hogu (born Chicago, IL 1938–died Chicago Heights, IL 2017) Painter and printmaker Barbara Jones-Hogu was a founding member of the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA), an artist collective formed in Chicago in 1968. Members of AfriCOBRA visually expressed the central ideas of the Black Power movement—self-determination, unity, and black pride. The group shared…
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John Muafangejo Printmaker
Although he produced a number of tapestries and paintings while at Rorke’s Drift, Muafangejo is known almost entirely as a printmaker; his linocuts are also particularly well known. In this respect, Azaria Mbatha (qv.), who favoured the medium, influenced Muafangejo as did many other artists who studied at Rorke’s Drift. In addition, the relative inexpensiveness…
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MAVIS IONA PUSEY
African-American artist Mavis Iona Pusey was born in Kingston, Jamaica on September 17, 1928, and grew up in the small rural village of Retreat. Her aunt taught her to sew and by the age of nine, Mavis was designing and making her own clothes. Throughout her youth what she wanted to do was to study…
West Harlem Art Fund 