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An example of work by Joseph Deweese Holston
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following biography was submitted by Shirley Saunders:
Joseph Holston's cubist abstractionist style has evolved over a fine arts career spanning nearly thirty years. Born in Washington, D. C., he had a career as a painter and printmaker. He began with years of independent study, augmented by study with renowned artists Marcos Blahove in Washington, and with Richard Goetz in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He also studied at Howard University and Montgomery College in Maryland, and enjoyed invaluable guidance and encouragement from Harlem Renaissance artists Lois Mailou Jones and James Wells.
Holston has exhibited at numerous museums and institutions. These include the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Smithsonian Institution,; Anacostia Museum, Washington, D. C.; the Fort Worth Museum of Fine Art, Texas; the Afro-American Museum, Philadelphia; the King-Tisdell Cottage Museum, Savannah, Georgia; the Arts Program Gallery at the University of Maryland; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the APEX Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; and the DuSable Museum, Chicago. His work was also included in the exhibition American Painters in Paris; and the Department of States Art in Embassies program.
He has also exhibited and been a guest lecturer at DePauw University, University of Maryland, University of Dar es Salaam, Howard University, Bowling Green State University, and Visual Arts Center of N. W. Florida. His work has been commissioned by the AFL-CIO, the Miller Brewing Company, the National Urban Coalition, the National Medical Association, Gallo Winery, and the Washington Urban League. Holston was selected to be the official artist of the Chicago Jazz Festival in 1996 and 1997.
Works by Joseph Holston are included in numerous museum, institution and private collections. His painting Night at the Casbah, is included in the collection of New York City Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| The following information is from Sharon Smith Holston:
I
would appreciate your adding the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Museum to the listing of museums which have works by Joseph Holston.
The RISD Museum recently added Mr. Holston's etching Saturday Night Fight,
to its permanent collection. A letter acknowledging this acquisition
was received from Ms. Jan Howard, Curator of Prints, Drawings and
Photographs. The acquisition was arranged by Ms. Mary Ann Wenniger of
the Wenniger Gallery, Rockport, Massachusetts, one of the galleries that
represents Mr. Holston.
Thank you.
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