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James A. Porter, African Nude, 1934.Harmon Foundation Collection. Porter began his career as an instructor of painting and drawing at Howard University.During his four decade Howard tenure, he would work with artists, such as James Lesesne Wells and Lois Mailou Jones, chair the Art Department, and serve as Director of the Art Gallery (1953 through 1970). [4]
Richard Powell, From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art & Ideology in the Washington Area (Washington, D.C.: Washington Project for the Arts, 1989) Constance Porter Uzelac, James A. Porter, Artist and Art Historian: The Memory of the Legacy (Washington, D.C.: Howard Univ. Gallery of Art, 1992) Deborah Willis, Reflections in Black (2000)
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Hiroshige (広重, 1797–1858), Japanese ukiyo-e artist and print-maker; Damien Hirst (born 1965), English artist, entrepreneur and art collector; Hishida Shunsō (菱田春草, 1874–1911), Japanese painter; Hishikawa Moronobu (菱川師宣, 1618–1694), Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printer and painter; George Hitchcock (1850–1913 ...
Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 – September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic. [1] He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family. [2] He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W ...
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Painted by trained artist Charles E. Weir (the brother of American painter of Robert Weir), Sawyer is a work of genre art, a style of art popular in mid 19th century America. The painting depicts an African American workman (presumably a coachman or porter) chopping wood outside a hotel in Lower Manhattan, then a developing part of the city.
Vernon Carroll Porter, artist, was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1896. [1] He studied at the Art Students League , [ 2 ] Grand Central School Academy, the Mechanics Institute, and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and was known for his surreal landscape oil paintings.