Occupation – Artist – Painter
Paul R. Dusenbury (1935-1998)
Paul Dusenbury was a multi-talented visual artist, musician, teacher, and proponent of the synthesis of many art expressions. His explorations,...
Archibald J. Motley Jr. (1891-1981)
African-American artist Archibald J. Motley Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 7, 1891. At the age of...
Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901)
Artist Edward Bannister was a painter who concentrated on pastoral landscape scenes depicting the beauty and serenity of nature. He...
Joshua Johnston (ca. 1763-1832)
Joshua Johnston, also known as Joshua Johnson, was a portraitist active in Baltimore, Maryland, between 1790 and 1825, and the...
Jefferson Eugene Grigsby Jr. (1918- )
Artist and academic Jefferson Eugene Grigsby, Jr., was born on October 15, 1918 in Greensboro, North Carolina. His interest and...
Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)
Visual artist, storyteller and feminist activist, Faith Ringgold was born on October 8, 1930 in Harlem Hospital, New York City...
William Henry Johnson (1901-1970)
William Henry Johnson was an African American expressionist painter. He was born on March 18, 1901, in Florence, South Carolina,...
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998)
Visual artist Lois Mailou Jones was born in 1905 in Boston, Massachusetts to Thomas Vreeland and Carolyn Dorinda Jones. Her...
Robert S. Duncanson (1817-1872)
Robert S. Duncanson was a landscape and portrait painter born in northern New York in 1817. His father was Scottish...
