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Mavis Pusey (1928-2019)<\/h2>\r\n

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A painter, printer and educator, Mavis Pusey was known for her geometric abstract artworks which drew inspiration from and interpreted urban landscapes. The New York Times once called Pusey one of the \u201cleading abstractionists\u201d of the 20th century.<\/p>\r\n

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Pusey, like so many black artists from the late 1940s through the \u201870s, worked in abstraction during a time when black artists were expected to create work about black identity and black life. Moreover, black abstract artists and black artists were often overlooked within the Eurocentric male focused cannon, and faced criticism for their artistic choices in their work.<\/p>\r\n

The work created by black artists is not a monolithic one. There are many artistic visions in black art. Pusey, among others, helped create a path for other black abstract artists.<\/p>\r\n

On September 17, 1928, Pusey was born in Kingston, Jamaica. At the age of 18, she left Jamaica for New York to study fashion design at the Traphagen School of Fashion. Later, she transferred to the Art Student League after she won a scholarship from the Ford Foundation. An educator, Pusey taught at the New School for Social Research, Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts and Rutgers University.<\/p>\r\n

Pusey was awarded several awards throughout her career, including from the Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Pollock-Krasnoyarsk Foundation. Her work was included the inaugural exhibition at the Smithsonian\u2019s The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. Other exhibitions include the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, The Art Students League of New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.<\/p>\r\n

Her work is in several major museum collections such as National Museum of African American History and Culture, Shelton Museum of Art, The Studio Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Tougaloo College, and The Museum of Modern Art.<\/p>\r\n

Mavis Pusey died in 2019 in Fairmouth, Virginia. Her artistic legacy lives on.<\/p>\r\n

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Beauford Delaney (1901-1979)<\/h2>\r\n

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One of the most prominent artists during the Harlem Renaissance was Beauford Delaney (1901-1979). An American modernist painter, he was recognized for his pastel portraits of famous African Americans such as Duke Ellington and W.E.B. DuBois. Beginning in the early 1950s, Delaney began painting in the non representative style of abstract expressionism.<\/p>\r\n

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, as a child. Delaney demonstrated his artistic skills and talent which caught the attention of a Knoxville artist, Lloyd Branson who gave lessons to Delaney. Branson later encouraged Delaney to study art in Boston. Delaney\u2019s brother, Joseph Delaney also demonstrated artistic skills as a child and he, too, later became a noted artist.<\/p>\r\n

At the age of sixteen, Delaney moved to moved to Boston. While there, he took classes at Massachusetts Normal Art School and the South Boston School of Art. Despite attending classes at these two schools, Delaney considered himself a self-taught artist. While living in Boston, he frequently visited museums and galleries to study the European masters and other artists.<\/p>\r\n

After living and working in New York for 25 years, Delaney moved to Paris in 1953. Like many African-American creatives, Delaney moved to France to escape American racism. While in Paris, Delaney felt less pressure to produce work with political overtones. While he was in Paris, he started doing abstract expressionism. His improvisational use of color in his abstract paintings echoed his love of music, particularly jazz.<\/p>\r\n

Economic success eluded while he was in Paris. He had found more economic success in New York. Beauford died in 1979 in an asylum in France.<\/p>\r\n

Beauford Delaney\u2019s art works are in the collections of various institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.<\/p>\r\n

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Amos Ferguson (1920-2009)<\/h2>\r\n
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A house painter by trade, Amos Ferguson (1920-2009) was a self-taught artist from the Bahamas, known as \u201cthe grandfather of Bahamian art.\u201d Ferguson started creating art in the 1960s after his nephew told him details about a dream he had. Ferguson painted his interpretation of the dream. Since then, Ferguson used his vibrant pallet to create rhythmic images which encompassed Biblical scenes, nature motifs, and the everyday life of the Bahamian people. His subject matter was based on his own dreams and he believed that God told him to make art.<\/p>\r\n

Using enamel paint, Ferguson painted his images on cardboard, poster board, and pieces of wood. He signed his artwork \u201cMr. Amos Ferguson\u201d and sold it from his home on Exuma Street. Exuma Street was later renamed Amos Ferguson Street.<\/p>\r\n

Eventually, Ferguson caught the attention from the art world and, in 1985, his work was featured at an exhibition, \u201cPaint By Mr. Amos Ferguson\u201d at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, Connecticut.<\/p>\r\n

After opening in 2003, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas acquired over twenty of his artworks for their collection.<\/p>\r\n

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Evelyn Patricia Terry (1946-)<\/h2>\r\n
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Born in 1946, Evelyn Patricia Terry\u2019s career spans five decades with her work in over five hundred public, private and corporate collections and in exhibitions in the U.S., Japan, Russia, Spain and Germany.<\/p>\r\n

Like so many parents, Terry\u2019s mother did not see art as being a career where one could earn a living. Terry followed her mother\u2019s advice to major in Home Economics, but was not happy and did not do well. One day one of her professors saw some of her drawings and suggested she major in art. Terry took her advice and earned her BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has two MFA degrees.<\/p>\r\n

Terry started her journey as a professional artist in the late 1960s during the Black Arts Movement. As a young artist and student, Terry featured in volume two of Samela Lewis and Ruth G. Waddy\u2019s book \u201cBlack Artists On Art.\u201d In 1971, her work was in the Whitney Museum of American Art\u2019s controversial exhibition, \u201cContemporary Black Artists in America.\u201d The exhibition featured 75 artists (15 of the artists withdrew from the exhibition in protest because they said the Whitney violated the contractual agreement). The curator from the Whitney Museum came to the Gallery Towards The Black Asethics in Milwaukee and selected her artwork for the \u201cContemporary Black Artists In America exhibition. The Gallery Towards The Black Asethics was founded by a group of young Milwaukee black artists in the 1960s. It was the idea of artist George Edwards. The gallery existed until the early 1970s. Terry was one of the first artists that was involved with the Gallery Towards the Black Asethics.<\/p>\r\n

Terry works in diverse media such as printmaking, pastels, and painting. She is known for her abstract work. She is currently making artists books recycling her old works from her printmaking. This year, Terry\u2019s work is featured in the book \u201cPop Art and Beyond Gender, Race, and Class Beyond Global Studies\u201d written by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki.<\/p>\r\n

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Nina Chanel Abney (1982-)<\/h2>\r\n
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Born in Illinois in 1982, Nina Chanel Abney is known for her large scale colorful graphic paintings that examine race, gender, politics, homophobia and pop culture. Her paintings combine abstraction and representation. She is one of the most influential African American artists working today.

In 2004, she earned her BFA from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois along with a second degree in computer science. And in 2007, Abney earned her MFA from Parsons School of Art and Design in New York. She was one of the youngest students to attend Parsons School of Art and Design in her MFA program.<\/p>\r\n

Abney was the youngest artist in the noted traveling exhibition \u201c30 Americans.\u201d The \u201c30 Americans\u201d exhibition featured the artworks of some of the most important African-American artists from the last thirty years. The exhibition has been shown in various museums including Honolulu Museum of Art, Columbia Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Barnes Foundation. The artworks in the \u201c30 Americas\u201d exhibition are from the Rubell family\u2019s collection, one of the most important collections of art in the world.<\/p>\r\n

Abney\u2019s work has been included in exhibitions in various museums, galleries, and other institutions including Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France, Chicago Cultural Center, Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California African American Museum, Jack Shainman Gallery and the Modern Art Museum at Fort Worth.<\/p>\r\n

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