Best known for his portraits of such celebrities as baseball legend
Hank Aaron and comedian Bill Cosby, Simmie Knox unveiled in June 2004
his portraits of former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary
Rodham Clinton, and both portraits will hang in the White House.
Knox,
a self-taught artist, was born in 1935 in Aliceville, Alabama to a
family of black sharecroppers. He has specialized in oil portraiture
since 1981. Prior to that, he taught at various colleges, universi (showing 500 of 5349 characters). |
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