An easel painter for the WPA division of the Illinois Art Project, a fine-art painter and print maker, Charles Davis was a black-American artist who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Hull House. He depicted people of the Bronzeville neighborhood where he lived and felt much sympathy for the residents. He was quoted: "These people and the whole neighborhood have something to say. I want to paint real people and real places." (Terra 105)
Davis studied at the Art Institute of Ch (showing 500 of 1146 characters). |
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