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Encyclopedia of African American Artists (Artists of the American Mosaic) PDF

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Encyclopedia of African American Artists RecentTitlesin ArtistsoftheAmericanMosaic EncyclopediaofJewishAmericanArtists SamanthaBaskind EncyclopediaofAsianAmericanArtists KaraKelleyHallmark EncyclopediaofArabAmericanArtists FayeqS.Oweis EncyclopediaofNativeAmericanArtists DeborahEverettandElayneZorn E NCYCLOPEDIA OF A A A FRICAN MERICAN RTISTS dele jegede Artists of the American Mosaic GREENWOOD PRESS Westport,Connecticut • London LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData jegede,dele,1945– EncyclopediaofAfricanAmericanartists/delejegede. p.cm.— (ArtistsoftheAmericanmosaic,ISSN1939–1218) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978–0–313–33761–1(alk.paper) 1. AfricanAmericanartists—Biography—Dictionaries.2. AfricanAmericanart—20thcentury— Dictionaries.3. AfricanAmericanart—21stcentury—Dictionaries. I.Title. N6538.N5J442009 700.89’96073—dc22 [B] 2008045604 BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationDataisavailable. Copyright©2009bydelejegede Allrightsreserved.Noportionofthisbookmaybe reproduced,byanyprocessortechnique,withoutthe expresswrittenconsentofthepublisher. LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:2008045604 ISBN:978–0–313–33761–1 ISSN:1939–1218 Firstpublishedin2009 GreenwoodPress,88PostRoadWest,Westport,CT06881 AnimprintofGreenwoodPublishingGroup,Inc. www.greenwood.com PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Thepaperusedinthisbookcomplieswiththe PermanentPaperStandardissuedbytheNational InformationStandardsOrganization(Z39.48–1984). 10987654321 ThisbookisdedicatedtoToyinFalola(ElenuNla´!).Hismouthisindeedbig, butnotnearlyasbigashisprodigiouscapacityforscholarship. This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii GhadaAmer 1 OluAmoda 4 EmmaAmos 7 BennyAndrews 11 Jean-MichelBasquiat 17 RomareBearden 21 JohnThomasBiggers 26 Alexander(Skunder)Boghossian 30 ElizabethCatlett 35 SonyaClark 39 RobertColescott 43 LarryCollins 47 EdwardJ.Colston 51 Willis‘‘Bing’’Davis 55 AchamyeleDebela 58 ThorntonDialSr. 60 JeffDonaldson 64 AaronDouglas 68 DavidClydeDriskell 72 MelvinEugeneEdwardsJr. 77 VictorEkpuk 81 viii Contents OkwuiEnwezor 84 LallaAssiaEssaydi 89 TolulopeFilani 95 SamGilliam 99 PalmerC.Hayden 105 GeorgeHughes 109 RichardHowardHunt 112 WilliamH.Johnson 117 Lo¨ısMailouJones 120 WoseneWorkeKosrof 125 MarciaKure 128 JacobLawrence 133 NormanLewis 138 GlennLigon 143 CynthiaLockhart 146 (FrankE.)TobyMartinII 151 CarolynMazloomi 154 JulieMehretu 157 ArchibaldMotley 160 WangechiMutu 164 BarbaraNesin 169 OdiliDonaldOdita 173 KoladeAdekunleOshinowo 176 GordonAlexanderParks 181 ThomasPhelps 184 HoracePippin 187 EllenJeanPrice 191 MartinPuryear 195 FaithRinggold 201 AminahBrendaLynnRobinson 206 BetyeIreneSaar 211 JohnTarrellScott 215 Contents ix ThomasEugeneShawJr. 218 LornaSimpson 222 ReneeStout 226 HenryOssawaTanner 231 FatimahTuggar 235 ObioraUdechukwu 239 JamesVanDerZee 243 KaraWalker 247 OuattaraWatts 251 CarrieMaeWeems 254 CharlesWilbertWhite 258 WilliamThomasWilliams 262 HaleWoodruff 266 Bibliography 271 Index 283

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African American heritage is rich with stories of family, community, faith, love, adaptation and adjustment, grief, and suffering, all captured in a variety of media by artists intimately familiar with them. From traditional media of painting and artists such as Horace Pippin and Faith Ringgold, to
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