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James A. Porter, Modern Negro Art (1943) David C. Driskell, Two Centuries of Black American Art (1976) 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 ...
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]
Pages in category "Artists from Washington, D.C." The following 154 pages are in this category, out of 154 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The List of painters in the National Gallery of Art is a list of the named artists in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. whose works there comprise oil paintings, gouaches, tempera paintings, and pastels. The online collection contains roughly 4,000 paintings by 1,000 artists, but only named painters with the previously mentioned ...
This exhibition was an invitational curated exhibition which featured the work of ten Washington, DC area artists who were immigrants to the United States from Latin America. [2] The work was selected by Jack Rasmussen, director and curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.
Lewis was a 2014 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Regional Winner (Washington DC). [8] His work has been included in the US Art in Embassies Program, [1] and is in the permanent collections of the University of Maryland [9] and the Yuko Nii Foundation. Lewis was selected in 2014 as the inaugural resident artist for Martha's Vineyard Art on the ...
Subsequently, in 1986 Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry commissioned Stovall to create a work for the city's host committee for the 1988 Democratic National Convention. [ 4 ] His work is in the collection of several museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, [ 9 ] The National Gallery of Art , Washington, D.C ...
Henry C. Newcomer (1861–1952), U.S. Army brigadier general, engineer whose work included Taft Bridge and improvements to Washington Aqueduct; retired to Washington, D.C. [23] Edward C. Peter II (1929 – 2008), U.S. Army lieutenant general, commander of Fourth United States Army ; born in D.C. [ 24 ]