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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]
Art and Illusion; Art by Women in Florence; Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties; Art Deco of the 20s and 30s; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area (book) Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; Artists in biographies by Filippo Baldinucci; Arts of Mankind; The Automatic Message
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 ...
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 ...
Arthur Kingsley Porter was the son of Timothy Hopkins Porter, a banker, [7] and Maria Louisa Hoyt, one of the first women to graduate from Vassar College. [8] When his parents married in 1870 [9] they merged two of Connecticut's oldest and most influential families, [10] both groups of ancestors having arrived in Connecticut in the early 1600s.
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.
Cambridge Studies in the History of Art is a book series of the history of art published by Cambridge University Press. The editors were Francis Haskell , a fellow of King's College, Cambridge , and Nicholas Penny of the National Gallery . [ 1 ]