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Birth
1930 (Plainview, Georgia)
Death
2006 (Brooklyn, New York)
Lived/Active
New York/Georgia
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ethnic genre painting, abstraction, collage
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Black American Artists
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Best known for large collage paintings on canvas, Benny Andrews did
work that verges on caricature, many of them related to his
African-American heritage in the South.
He was raised in Morgan
County, Georgia and was baptized in the Plainview Baptist Church, a
subject he depicted in a body of work titled The Revival Series. In this series of about 26 drawings and gouaches, he explores the theme of the Christian religion in society.
Another series is a chronicle of t (showing 500 of 22008 characters). |
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