SOLD – Pas De Deux by William Tolliver

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Pas De Deux
by William Tolliver
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Size 40″ x 30″

Artist Bio: 1951-2000 – Tolliver spent more than 30 of his 48 years perfecting his skill as a painter. Today, William Tolliver’s art is collected worldwide. Tolliver’s style freely combines the color of Chagall with the solid compositional principles of Cezanne and the mood and forms of Modigliani and Picasso. Tolliver’s words of wisdom for the young artist were, “I would urge an art student to go to school and learn the fundamentals, because to know the fundamentals is to know the technical aspects of blending colors.”

In an age when the rules of art had either been abandoned in favor of an anti-formalist attitude or had been institutionalized in academic study, William Tolliver emerged as a brilliant self-taught artist -a Mississippi-born Renaissance man whose creative intelligence combines the study of formal structure with an innate sense of human observation. Far from the marketplace of the New York City art world, Tolliver arose during the mid-1980’s a brilliant regional talent, an individual impelled by a desire to capture the landscapes and peoples of his native deep South. Whether dealing with everyday workers or back-alley jazzmen, he conveys a universal message through sconces of the common human experience. While plaintive in mood, Tolliver’s works evoke compassion with an underlying sense of expressive emotion. “I could draw on a lot of sad and depressing things from my life, but I’d rather emphasize the positive.” An artist of insight and natural ability, Tolliver is a deliverer of an artist message imbued with unique expressions and spiritual enlistment. Tolliver was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Although his mother worked in the cotton fields by day, she found time to rear and help educate 14 children. To stimulate their interest in learning, she often challenged William and his older brother to drawing contests. Discovering William’s talent, she borrowed art books from the library that exposed her son to the works of the European masters. His astute observation led him to study subjects from books, black-and-white photographs, nature, comics, and family members who posed as models. Since the local public schools did not have an art curriculum, Tolliver continued his course of self-study. From inexpensive dime-store watercolor sets purchased with money earned by mowing lawns, Tolliver learned to mix and blend colors by using a paint-by-number kit. Using this system he experimented with mixing color and skin tones and by the age eight was able to create academically correct paintings.
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Jubilee Ghana Harvest Festival, by John Biggers

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Jubilee
by John Biggers
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Size: 18″ x 46″ Approx

As a painter, muralist, illustrator, and sculptor, John Biggers has made innumerable contributions to American art and culture. In the 1950s he became one of the first African-American artists to travel to Africa, and to integrate African motifs and symbolism into his artwork. His pioneering achievements have influenced generations of artists in the United States and abroad.

Biggers also influenced thousands of young artists directly, as a professor of art at Texas Southern University. In 1949 he was recruited by the newly founded university to establish its art department. Biggers taught at Texas Southern for more than thirty years, winning several prestigious awards for his teaching.

In 1995 a retrospective exhibition of Biggers’s work, titled The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room, was organized by Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts. The show also traveled to five cities in the South and Northeast. “He is someone who has retained, over 50 years, an emphasis on African-American culture,” Alvia J. Wardlaw, curator of the exhibition, told the magazine American Visions. “He was one of the first African-American artists to study and live in West Africa and to bring back to us, in the late 1950s, images of African culture that were positive and personal—and accurate. And I think that is probably his greatest gift to American culture,” Wardlaw continued.

“John Biggers is a poet, philosopher, teacher, draughtsman, painter, sculptor, muralist, and, above all, an inspirational leader,” wrote Peter C. Marzio, director of Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, in the exhibition catalog, also titled The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room. “He leads us with his powerful imagery, his impassioned discourse, his intense energy, and his all-consuming belief in the human community and its mystical interaction with the natural world,” he added.
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    Dox Thrash: An African-American Master Printmaker Rediscovered

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    Dox Thrash: An African-American Master Printmaker Rediscovered
    by John Ittmann (Author) , Kymberly N. Pinder (Author) , Cindy Medley-Buckner (Author)
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    Dox Thrash came of age as an artist in the 1920s and 1930s, a time when art in the United States began to offer accurate reflections of everyday life. Throughout his career Thrash drew on personal experience for the striking imagery in his work, with scenes ranging from childhood memories of the rural South to hard times in the urban centers of the North, patriotic defense work during wartime, and poetic portraits of his community and its residents.Born in Georgia in 1893, Thrash left home at a young age and worked his way north to Chicago. After a decade of attending evening and day classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he spent the next few years living in Boston, Connecticut, and New York before settling in the late 1920s in Philadelphia, where he remained until his death in 1965.

    During the early years of the Depression in Philadelphia, Thrash found part-time work as a graphic designer, while also beginning to make a name for himself as a painter. But it was as a printmaker that he would leave his most lasting mark. In the late 1940s he received national attention for his role in the launching of a new printmaking technique, the carborundum print, developed in late 1937 in the Fine Print Workshop of the Federal Art Project. a branch of the government-sponsored Works Progress Administration (WPA).

    It is Thrash’s evocative carborundum prints that have most often been chosen for exhibition, both during his lifetime and after, but the artist was also a master of many other printmaking methods. Published here for the first time is an illustrated catalogue raisonné of all 188 prints Thrash is known to have made.

    The four essays in this volume open windows on different aspects of the artist’s life, offering a historical overview of his training and career as a printmaker; an examination of the inner workings of the Fine Print Workshop in Philadelphia, the only WPA workshop devoted entirely to the produciton of limited-edition prints; a re-creation of the Pyramid Club, Philadelphia’s premier African American cultural and social institution in the 1940s and 1950s; and an investigation of Thrash’s use of African American themes in his work.

    Contributors include John Ittmann, Philadelphia Museum of Art; David Brigham, Worcester Art Museum; Cindy Medley-Buckner, independent scholar; and Kymberly N. Pinder, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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    October Gallery Art Expo 28 on Germantown Ave.

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    The October Gallery’s 28th Annual Philadelphia International Art Expo was recently held at the 7165 Lounge located on Philadelphia’s historic Germantown Avenue. Hundreds of locals and visitors from out of town enjoyed an eclectic mix of activity, with art as the focal point, during the weekend long event. Mercer and Evelyn Redcross co-founded October Gallery nearly three decades ago.

    SOLD – Ceramic Flower Pot – Hand Made by Joyce Lomax

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    Ceramic Flower Pot – Hand Made
    by Joyce Lomax
    7″ wide x 15″ tall

    Love of art came early to Joyce Lomax who spent her childhood in Akron Ohio . As a child, Joyce found herself drawing and painting and always exploring her creative expression. The money was not there to support Joyce’s formal training in art so she did what many of her forefathers did; she self-taught!

    Joyce explored many mediums before she embraced her pressed copper paintings and ceramic work. Her art is very earthy with a primitive flare depicting characters and experiences in her African American environment. Some of her depictions are lighthearted with a bit of humor.

    A love of color, stories and expressing herself in mixed media is an accurate summary of Joyce’s work. She and or her art can be found at many cultural events in and outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

    Joyce has won several awards: Afr’ Am Show in Norfork, Virginia-2004 and South Dekalb Heritage Festival Palette Award 2003.

    “It is a privilege for me to create and share with you similar experiences; for me, art is about the ability to express feelings through the chosen medium hopefully someone gets it… I will continue to explore!”~Joyce
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    SOLD – Ceramic Tea Pot – Hand Made by Joyce Lomax

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    Ceramic Tea Pot – Hand Made
    by Joyce Lomax
    6″ Round Pot

    Love of art came early to Joyce Lomax who spent her childhood in Akron Ohio . As a child, Joyce found herself drawing and painting and always exploring her creative expression. The money was not there to support Joyce’s formal training in art so she did what many of her forefathers did; she self-taught!

    Joyce explored many mediums before she embraced her pressed copper paintings and ceramic work. Her art is very earthy with a primitive flare depicting characters and experiences in her African American environment. Some of her depictions are lighthearted with a bit of humor.

    A love of color, stories and expressing herself in mixed media is an accurate summary of Joyce’s work. She and or her art can be found at many cultural events in and outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

    Joyce has won several awards: Afr’ Am Show in Norfork, Virginia-2004 and South Dekalb Heritage Festival Palette Award 2003.

    “It is a privilege for me to create and share with you similar experiences; for me, art is about the ability to express feelings through the chosen medium hopefully someone gets it… I will continue to explore!”~Joyce
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    Heavyweight Champion Mike Spinks at Philadelphia International Art Expo

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    From left, Mike Teneller, former heavyweight boxing champion Michael Spinks and Mercer Redcross, co-founder of October Gallery.-Photo/Ronald Gray

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    The October Gallery’s 28th Annual Philadelphia International Art Expo was recently held at the 7165 Lounge located on Philadelphia’s historic Germantown Avenue. Hundreds of locals and visitors from out of town enjoyed an eclectic mix of activity, with art as the focal point, during the weekend long event. Mercer andEvelyn Redcross co-founded October Gallery nearly three decades ago.

    “The Philadelphia Art Expo attracts art lovers and attendees from all over the country and is one of the nation’s oldest African American Art Expos,” said Mercer. “Our show is an art hot spot for gallery owners, art dealers, interior decorators, art collectors, families and friends who wish to be a part of and share a rich art experience while discovering exciting new works of art from established and emerging artists.”

    Treasured works by artists such as Don Stephens, Edwin Lester, Annie Lee, Romare Bearden, Charles White,Andrew Turner, Charles Bibbs, Leroy Campbell, Cal Massey, Austino Okafor, George Nock, Kelvin Henderson, Timothy Caison and Graylin Anderson were featured at this year’s expo.

    The show was a forum for dealers, collectors and buyers to access hundreds of innovative works produced by artists and galleries from around the globe. Philadelphia Art Expo selects some of the most renowned artists as exhibitors and showcases their original prints, paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, giclee, lithographs, posters, glass works and more, all accessible under one roof.

    The Art Expo 2013 also included an art education series. When speaking with Mercer Redcross, he stressed that education has always been the cornerstone of the Art Expo. Educating the public about art and its benefits to the community is what differentiates this art show from other art expos, art fairs and art festivals. The expo education series offered three days of meetings and seminars on a variety of subjects such as “Artas an Investment,” “ What is YourArt Worth,”“Framing Tips”and “Art in the Community.” In addition to art education, RAFFI Institute presented a special program; Re- energize, Recharge, and Renew your Health and Vitality using ancient techniques.

    The expo ended on Sunday with a performance by actor, composer, singer and minister Clifton Davis.

    There was also an enjoyable Monnette Sudler benefit concert to support the popular musician who is awaiting a lung transplant. Funds were raised to assist her with medical expenses. The concert, hosted by Jeff Duperon of WRTI-FM, featured Odean Pope, Sonia Sanchez, Lee Smith, Sharon Katz, Sherry Butler, Barbara Walker,Webb Thomas, John Blake, Charles Beasley, Kenzel Honesty, Trapeta Mayson, Barbara Mills and many more.

    The increasingly popular 7165 Lounge has become the place to be when it comes to relaxing and dining while enjoying live entertainment ranging from Salsa to Friday night’s classic oldies hosted by Doug HendersonofWDAS Radio, to jazz and more. The house was packed when jazz aficionados came out for the Sunday jazz brunch featuring Damon Williams, Masha T, Art Fischman Quintet, Al Jackson and Like Minds.

    The John Brown Portfolio by Jacob Lawrence

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    The John Brown Portfolio by Jacob Lawrence
    Legend of John Brown 1978
    22 Screen Print Portfolio Signed and Numbered in Pencil by Artist
    60 In the Edition
    Each Print Measures 26″ x 20″

     

    Jacob Armstead Lawrence is among the best-known twentieth century American painters of African descent. He was married to another artist, Gwendolyn Knight. He termed the style of his painting as “dynamic cubism” as influenced by the colors and shapes he observed in Harlem. His works are flat, bold, and abstracted but depict real, recognizable subject matter that contains messages or reflects memories. Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but moved with his mother when he was thirteen, with his sister and brother to New York City. His mother enrolled him in arts and crafts classes in a settlement house in Harlem. Here he drew patterns with crayons and was recognized by an art teacher as one who had great potential. After dropping out of school at age sixteen, he worked in a laundry and printing plant. Yet he also attended classes at the Harlem Art Workshop taught by African American artist Charles Alston. This led to further art educational opportunities and a scholarship to the American Artists School and thence to a paid position with the Works Progress Administration.

    In 1941 he married painter Gwendolyn Knight who he had met as a student in the Harlem Community Art Center. During WWII he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and served on the first racially integrated crew on the USCGC Sea Cloud during which time he continued to paint. In 1970 he settled in Seattle to become an art professor at the University of Washington. He taught at many different schools during his long career. His paintings focused on the history and struggles of peoples of African origins in America across the nation. His famous Migration series depict the movement of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural South to the North after World War I. This series brought him attention and fame. He was given his first major solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and thus became the most celebrated American painter of African origins in this nation.

    He continued to produce art until shortly before his death at age 82. His last work was a mosaic mural New York in Transit, installed in 2001 in the Times Square Subway station, N.Y. During his lifetime Lawrence was honored with many medals, retrospective exhibitions, and elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1998 he was awarded the Washington State’s highest honor the Washington Medal of Merit. In 1990 he was presented the U.S. National Medal of the Arts.


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    Philly Art Expo 2013

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    Spotlight Video for 28th Annual Philadelphia International Art Expo
    October, 11, 12 and 13, 2013
    7165 Germantown Ave.
    Philadelphia, PA 19119

     

    Philadelphia International Art Expo Poster 2013

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    Philly Art Expo Poster 2013
    Size 8.5″ x 11″

    Our high-quality printing process gives this print/poster its eloquent and striking appearance. Printed cover stock. This is an affordable print, enjoy!

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