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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]
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.
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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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 ...
In 1929, Burnett married James A. Porter, an historian and artist. He was the author of Modern Negro Art. [9] They had a daughter together, Constance Porter Uzelac, known as "Coni". She married Milan Uzelac, and initially worked with her mother. She served as Executive Director of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Library.
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 ...
Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne name: Hock E Aye Vi) is a multi-disciplinary artist. His art contributions include public art messages, large scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture. [1] He is Southern Cheyenne and enrolled in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. [2]