WPA
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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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Tribute to Renaissance artist William H. Johnson
Born 1901, Florence, South Carolina Died 1970, Central Islip, New York Born in a small South Carolina town, William H. Johnson left for New York at seventeen and enrolled at the National Academy of Design in 1921. Though he originally intended to become a cartoonist, he won acclaim as a painter, leading to a…
African sculptures, Black migration, enevive Nykolak, expressionis landscapes, Harlem, Harlem art, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Renaissance artist, Holcha Krake, National Academy of Design, NYC, painter, Paris, portraits, primitive paintings, sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Sweet Chariot, Swing Low, vernacular style, William H. Johnson, WPA, WWII
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Remembering Charles Alston
This coming Friday, West Harlem Art Fund will moderate a panel discussion on Mexican Muralism and its impact on American art. If you are familiar with the subject, you know that the movement was immortalized by Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Siqueiros. But their reach crossed North America too with several artists of…
Academy of Arts and Letters, American illustrator, American muralist, American painter, American sculptor, Augusta Savage, Charles Alston, Charles White, City College, City University of New York, David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Elba Lightfoot, Elizabeth Catlett, Federal Art Project, Georgiette Seabrook, Harlem Community Art Center, Harlem Hospital Murals, Jacob Lawrence, Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexican Muralism Movement, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, WPA
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PALMER C. HAYDEN
Palmer Hayden, Harlem Renaissance artist and beyond Palmer Hayden’s birth was on November 9th 1890. He was an African American painter whose work became known during the Harlem Renaissance. Born Peyton Cole Hedgeman in Wide Water, Virginia, he was a prolific artist of his era. He depicted African American life, painting in both oils and…
100 Years, African American, art, art tool, artist, Cloyde Boykin, Dianne Smith, domestic, ethnic, Harlem art, Harlem Arts, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Renaissance artist, janitor, John Henry, occupation, palette, Palmer Hayden, service, The Janitor Who Paints, West Harlem, West Harlem Art, West Harlem Art Fund, WPA
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