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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]
List of modern artists; List of contemporary artists; List of 20th-century women artists; List of 21st-century women artists; List of sculptors; List of architects; List of graphic designers; List of illustrators
Carl Gustaf Pilo (1711–1793), Swedish/Danish artist and academy director; Veno Pilon (1896–1970), Yugoslav/Slovenian painter, graphic artist and photographer; Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886–1943), French painter; Howardena Pindell (born 1943), American painter and mixed-media artist; Xavier Blum Pinto (born 1957), Ecuadorian artist
A history of the "Old water-colour" society, now the Royal society of painters in water colours: Volume 1, Volume 2 by John Lewis Roget (London, Longmans, Green, and co., 1891). The ideals of painting by J. Comyns Carr (New York, Macmillan, 1917). An Art history focusing on the ideals that inspired European artists throughout the ages.
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
Art and artists of South Africa: An illustrated biographical dictionary and historical survey of painters, sculptors and graphic artists since 1875. Southern Books, 1996. ISBN 1868123456. [1] Boardman, John. Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC). Artemis, c1981–c1997. ISBN 3760887511. [1] Brigstocke, Hugh.
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.