Dox Thrash
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Dox Thrash was an African-American artist who was famed as a skilled draftsman, master printmaker, and painter and as the co-inventor of the Carborundum printmaking process. The subject of his artwork
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Front cover of Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, by John Ittmann.
Samuel Joseph Brown Jr.
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Samuel Joseph Brown Jr. was a watercolorist, printmaker, and educator. He was the first African-American artist hired to produce work for the Public Works of Art Project, a precursor to the Work Progr
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…of Black professional men that held an annual art exhibit starting in 1941. Others on hand were Howard N. Watson, Benjamin Britt, Robert Jefferson and Samuel J. Brown Jr. Thrash spent the later years of his life mentoring young African American artists. He died on April 19, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was…
Self-Portrait by Samuel Joseph Brown Jr.
Abstract by Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. 1937. Published by Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, Philadelphia, 1935 - 1943
Writing Lesson by Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. 1938. Published by Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, Philadelphia, 1935 - 1943
Samuel Joseph Brown Jr.'s Mrs. Simmons, painted in 1936.