Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

male, deceased (2006)
cancer death, Spingarn Medal winner, African American, from Kansas, photographer, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks…United States National Medal of Arts recipient, corcorangalleryofart, Office of War Information, not assured of a lasting place in Hollywood, director of Vogue
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet,...
Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam

male, 76 years old
Shaw, Washington, D.C., Kentucky artist, shaw, Corcoran School of Art, African-American, Carnegie Mellon University…Maryland Institute College Of Art, University of Louisville Alumni, corcorangalleryofart, University of Louisville
Sam Gilliam (b. November 30, 1933 in Tupelo, Mississippi) is an African American Color field painter associated with the Washington Color School...
William Wilson Corcoran

William Wilson Corcoran

male, deceased (1888)
banker, confederacy, renwick gallery, Business Person, PNC Bank, Confederate States of America…Corcoran Gallery, Visual arts of the United States, Art collector, american art, corcorangalleryofart
William Wilson Corcoran (1798 - 1888) was an American banker, philanthropist, and art collector. Corcoran was born in Georgetown in the District of...

Ernest Flagg

male
United States Naval Academy, Dark Island, Indian Neck Hall, Dark Island Castle, Washington State Capitol, Beaux-Arts…corcorangalleryofart
Ernest Flagg (February 6 1857-April 10 1947) was a noted American architect in the Beaux-Arts style. Flagg was born in Brooklyn, New York, studied...
Paul Cadmus

Paul Cadmus

male, deceased (1999)
painter, The Fleet's In!, Corcoran Gallery, Icons, magic realism, Member of Art Students League of New York…corcorangalleryofart, studied at the National Academy of Design
Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 - December 12, 1999) was an artist born in New York City. He is best known for his paintings and drawings of nude...
Robert Colescott

Robert Colescott

male, 84 years old
African American, Fernand Leger, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Baltimore Museum of Art, California artist…corcorangalleryofart, albright-knox art gallery, san francisco museum of modern art
Robert Colescott is an American painter. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter...
John Gossage

John Gossage

male, 63 years old
Staten Island, The Things That Animals Care About, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, LAMF Three Days in Berlin 1987, Berlin in the Time of the Wall, The Romance Industry…museum of modern art, corcorangalleryofart
John Gossage (born 1946) is an American photographer, noted for his artist's books and other publications using his photographs to explore...
Jerome Liebling

Jerome Liebling

male, 85 years old
University of Minnesota, The Old Men, Allen Downs, Photo League, Walter Rosenblum, The Tree Is Dead…Boston Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Canada, corcorangalleryofart, museum of modern art
Jerome Liebling (born 1924) is an American photographer and filmmaker. He studied photography under Walter Rosenblum and Paul Strand, and joined...
Juan Downey

Juan Downey

male, deceased (1993)
film director, smithsonian, whitney museum of american art, Santiago, video art, Video artist…san francisco museum of modern art, corcorangalleryofart, Contemporary Art Museum, Catholic University of Chile, The Institute of Contemporary Art
Juan Downey (May 11, 1940 - June 9,1993) was a pioneer video artist. Born in Santiago, Chile, he received a B.A. in architecture from the Catholic...

Andrea Way

female, 60 years old
artist, American, cleveland museum of art, corcorangalleryofart, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden…Marsha Mateyka Gallery
Andrea Way (b. 1949 in San Francisco, California) is a Washington, D.C. artist. Her works have been added to the permanent collections of The...