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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]
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 ...
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)
Charles Ethan Porter (1847 – March 6, 1923) was an American painter who specialized in still life painting. A student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, he was one of the first African Americans to exhibit there.
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 ...
William Powhida (born 1976), American visual artist and art critic; Domenico Pozzi (1745–1796), Italian painter; Andrea Pozzo (1642–1709), Italian painter, architect and Jesuit; Harvey Pratt (born 1941), American forensic artist; Fred A. Precht (1863–1942), American painter; Maurice Prendergast (1861–1924), American artist
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Porter, who began his career as a figure painter, eventually devoted himself to portraiture entirely. [4] He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1878, and a full academician in 1880. [5] [6] Porter opened his studio, at 3 Washington Square North, [3] in New York in 1880. [1] Today, he is best known for his ...