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Birth
1931 (Eatonton, Georgia)
Death
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Maryland/District Of Columbia
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abstract figure painting-African American themes, non ob, graphics
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A painter of images based on nature and African-American art, David Driskell is also a scholar, curator, teacher, and collector of African-American art. He credits much of his interest and success to James A. Porter, an art history professor with whom he studied at Howard University.
Driskell was born in Eatonton, Georgia, into a sharecropper family who moved when he was age five to North Carolina in the Appalachian mountains. He lived there until 1951, when he began attendance at Howard (showing 500 of 2355 characters). |
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