biography
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| lived:
| (1917–2000)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. He studied in New York City at the Art Workshop, Harlem, the Harlem Art Center, and the American Artists School (1937–9). Considered a leading African-American artist, he has worked in gouache and tempera. He is famous for the distinctive flat surfaces of his narrative paintings depicting social problems, as may be seen in ‘The Migration of the Negro’ (1940–1) and ‘Struggle: from the History of the American People’ (1955). In 1990 he was awarded the US National Medal of the Arts. |
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