Following are excerpts from The New York Times obituary, January 30, 2001, by Holland Cotter:
John Biggers, a painter, printmaker and sculptor known for his
meticulous depictions of African and African-American life, died on
Thursday at his home in Houston. He was 76.
The cause was a heart attack, said Carl Ards, Mr. Biggers's brother-in- law.
Mr.
Biggers's art, often in the form of public murals, was grounded in the
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Black American Artists
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