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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]
The James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora is an annual event hosted and sponsored by Howard University. James Porter is recognized as the "Father of African American art history." [1] [2] His book, Modern Negro Art, is the first comprehensive study of African American Art in the United States. [3]
Rufus Porter Rufus Porter water color wall mural Rufus Porter advertisement for his 1849 New York to California transport Rufus Porter mural in the Kent House, Lyme, New Hampshire Title page of Porter's pamphlet of 1849. Rufus Porter (May 1, 1792 – August 13, 1884) was an American painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine ...
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 ...
Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883–1933) was an American archaeologist, art historian, and medievalist. He was chair of Harvard University ’s art history department, and was the first American scholar of Romanesque architecture to achieve international recognition. [ 1 ]
Porter received a B.A. in 1928 from Howard University, a historically black college. During this time, she met James Amos Porter, an art historian and instructor in Howard's art department. [3] They married in 1929, while she completed post-graduate work. She studied at Columbia University, earning B.S. in 1931 and M.S. in 1932 in library ...
In the fall of 1873, Porter studied art with Joseph Oriel Eaton, a prominent portrait and landscape painter, for a year. Every year, he studied and painted in New York City from fall through spring but returned to Rockville in the summer to paint and teach art classes. From 1873 to 1875, Porter started to sell his work.
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.