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Birth
1957 (Quincy, Florida)
Death
Lived/Active
Missouri/New Mexico
Often Known For
regional landscape, black figure, genre
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An award-winning painter of figures depicting black middle and lower class people and landscapes from his southern background and other personal experiences, Dean Mitchell is inspired by grizzled laborers, time-worn elderly faces, and persons like himself who have lived in a segregated environment. His career hit an upswing 2002 when art critic Michael Kimmelman wrote in "The New York Times" that Mitchell was 'a virtual modern-day Vermeer'.
Dean Mitchell grew up in his birth place of Quin (showing 500 of 5535 characters). |
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