John Thomas Biggers (1924-2001) - Blackpast
Mar 31, 2011 · Twentieth century artist John Thomas Biggers was an educator, painter and muralist. His travels in Africa in the 1950s influenced the depiction of social and cultural themes in his work. John Thomas Biggers was born in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1924.
John Biggers :: The Johnson Collection, LLC
In 1949, Biggers moved to Houston, Texas, where he served as founder and chairman of Texas State (now Texas Southern) University’s art department, a post he held until 1983. In the 1950s, Biggers’s social realist emphasis evolved, largely as the result of travel in Africa.
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A Deeper Look: John Thomas Biggers - Dallas Museum of Art …
Feb 17, 2017 · John Biggers’ story begins in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1924. Growing up as a black child during a racially segregated time in the southern United States deeply influenced his perspective of the world.
Spotlight on John Biggers’s ‘Shotguns’ - Swann Galleries News
Sep 23, 2009 · In Shotguns John Biggers weaves African-American women, architecture, and other symbols of both African and American culture into a rich and quilt-like geometric pattern. The painting sold for $216,000.
John Thomas Biggers - Artnet
View John Thomas Biggers’s 297 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available prints and multiples, works on paper, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist.
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John Biggers - David Barnett Gallery
John Thomas Biggers (1924–2001) was an African American muralist who came to prominence after the Harlem Renaissance and toward the end of World War II.
The Art of Work in A Work of Art: The John Biggers Papers, 1950-2001
Jul 13, 2012 · The 1994 drawings “Rebirth,” “Morning Star, Evening Star,” and “Rape of the Earth” offer a look at the depth and detail he applied to early versions of works that inspired or eventually transformed into lithographs for a folio representing Maya Angelou's poem “Our Grandmothers.”
Selected Works - John Biggers (1924-2001) - Michael Rosenfeld Art
Documents relating to John Biggers' work as an artist and arts advocate include planning and promotional material from a number of public exhibitions of Biggers' work as well as handwritten research notes on African art; financial documents about loans and sales of his work; artwork and sketches by Biggers and other artists; as well as a ...