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Beanie was mostly self-taught, although he did enjoy two summer stints at the Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1924–25. [12] Backus always earned his living through his artistic talent, first as a commercial artist painting signs, billboards and theater marquees, and later encouraged by Dorothy Binney Palmer, his first true patron, to pursue his landscape paintings as a full-time ...
This museum houses artwork by A. E. Backus and other Florida artists. [1] The museum contains the largest public collection of paintings by Backus, [1] a preeminent Florida landscape painter. The A.E. Backus Museum & Gallery, an 8,000 sq. ft. public visual arts facility, was established in 1960 by Backus and a group of local art enthusiasts.
Fort Pierce, FL: A. E. Backus Museum and Gallery, 2008. DVD. Hambrick, Jack. The Highwaymen: Florida’s Outsider Artists. Harrington Park: Janson Media, 2003. DVD. Hurd, Gordon K. "Alfred Hair (1941-1970) - A charismatic businessman who created a movement for Florida’s black artists." The New York Times "Overlooked" Series, 2019.
Ms. Alswang led the West Palm Beach museum from 2010 to 2019 and oversaw its $100 million-plus expansion. Obituary: Hope Alswang, former Norton Museum CEO, dies at 77 Skip to main content
Alfred Warner Hair was born 20 May 1941 in Fort Pierce, Florida, one of seven children of Samuel and Annie Mae Hair. [2] Hair graduated from Lincoln Park Academy in 1961, and attended one year at community college before dropping out to pursue his career as an artist.
(The museum closed for a month while 4,000 120-ft. long steel filaments painted in fluorescent colors were hung from the gallery's ceiling and an 8,000 ft. by 20 ft. mylar banner was attached to the facade.) [1] In October 1977, Harithas brought in multidisciplinary artist Antoni Miralda, whose installations, performances, and happenings ...
The only son of Charles Kellogg Backus and Eva Backus, née Standish (a descendant of Myles Standish), Standish Backus Sr. (1875–1943) was born in Detroit on January 12, 1875. He graduated in 1898 with an A.B. from the University of Michigan and in 1901 with an LL.B. from the Detroit College of Law .
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