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Price $SOLD Black Face by George Hunt Original Oil on Canvas Size 8″ x 10″ George Hunt was born in rural Lake Charles, LA in 1940 where he was reared by his single mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Mr. Hunt advanced his formal education at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff and later at NYU in …
Inner City Blues by Andrew Turner Size: 72″ x 48″ Approx Original Acrylic on Canvas Andrew Turner was born in l944 in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Andrew’s work has been widely acclaimed, with many solo exhibitions and participation in group exhibitions. He has taught art in …
SOLD Jazz Combo by Andrew Turner Original on Canvas Board Size 7″ x 10″ Andrew Turner (1944-2001) was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Andrew’s work has been widely acclaimed, with many solo exhibitions and participation in group exhibitions. He has taught art in grades K-1 …
SOLD “Silk” By International Artist George Nock Size 30″ x 12″ Bronze “Theirs are the eyes of visionaries.” —George Nock, on artists Artists and athletes generally inhabit opposite ends of the stereotype spectrum: the jocks just don’t mix with the poets and painters. But a few individuals are helping redefine this notion, and have created …
SOLD Sisters by Cameron Scott Original Acrylic on Canvas Size 48″ x 66″ Approx CAMERON VINCENT SCOTT (1957 – ) Painter and photographer Cameron Scott comes from a family of artists, going back to his great-grandmother. His mother studied with Hale Woodruff at Spelman College in the early 1940s. Scott is a graduate of the …
The city of Lodz in Poland is promoting the work of street artists from around the world as a way of creating a cultural re-invigoration of this city whose population is three quarters of a million. Begun in 2009, the Urban Forms Gallery has installed more than 20 large square paintings on elevations in the …
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A story right out of reality television has unfolded for a young couple from western Massachusetts. Last year the couple acquired the contents of an abandoned storage locker at a Boston auction. Little did they realize at the time that the locker contained a selection of works by Allan Rohan Crite, dubbed in 2002 as …
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The woman’s body is luscious but self-contained, suggesting that this is not an erotic pose, not quite. She is naked from the waist up, her heavy breasts seeming to offer an invitation, yet her thoughtful glance, staring out beyond the picture, suggests that she has other things on her mind. The painting, titled Self-Portrait as …
Reese Witherspoon’s professional image is so squeaky clean that she got laughs on a late-night show earlier this year for pretending to buy bottles of cognac and tequila. Her recent arrest and admission that she “clearly had one drink too many” could be more damaging to her brand than it might be for someone with …
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Seventy years ago, an unsuspecting Albert Hoffman discovered a chemical substance that would alter the face of rock music and drug culture forever. While experimenting with the medicinal properties in lysergic acid compounds in the late 1930s and early ’40s, Hoffman ingested what would soon become known as LSD, a drug that came to define the latter …
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By SAM MELLINGER The Kansas City Star The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum has done so many things. Seen so much. They have been hosts to presidents. They have welcomed Hall of Famers. They’ve received checks from baseball stars (though not enough of them), they’ve thrown black-tie galas, and they’ve sung along with The Temptations. They …
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Is Selena Gomez the next Jennifer Lopez? With her singing, dancing, and acting chops, one producer seems to think so. “Her album’s really cool. It’s a really strong dance record and it’s really cool actually,”Gomez’s collaborator Jason Evigan told MTV News. ”I think it’s going to take her to the next level too. All the stuff …
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