biography
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| lived:
| (1901–70)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Florence, South Carolina, USA. He went to Harlem at age 17, and for five years studied painting at the National Academy of Design. He then lived mainly in Denmark (he had married a Danish weaver and potter, Holche Krake, in 1930) and Norway, returning to New York City in 1938. In 1943 they lost everything in a fire, then his wife died, and by 1947 he was placed in a mental institution. Virtually all his surviving output (some 800 paintings and watercolours and 400 drawings and prints) was given to the National Museum of American Art in 1967. It is becoming recognized for its original fusion of such disparate influences as van Gogh and African sculpture, Constructivism and African textiles. |
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