Description: AMERICAN ICONS: FROM MADISON TO MANHATTAN, THE ART OF BENNY ANDREWS, 1948-1997 BY J. RICHARD GRUBER FIRST EDITION SOFTCOVER Benny Andrews (November 13, 1930 – November 10, 2006) was an American artist, activist and educator. Born in Plainview, GA, Andrews earned a BFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1958, and soon after moved to New York. He is known for his expressive, figurative paintings that often incorporated collaged fabric and other material. Andrews helped found the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, which agitated for greater representation of African American artists and curators in New York’s major art museums in the late 1960s and 70s. He also led the group in founding an arts education program in prisons and detention centers. Andrews taught art at Queens College for three decades, and from 1982 to 1984, served as the Director of the Visual Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts. He received many awards, including the John Hay Whitney Fellowship (1965–66), the New York Council on the Arts fellowships (1971–81), and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1974–81). Benny Andrews was born into a family of ten on November 13, 1930, in the small community of Plainview, Georgia. His parents, George and Viola (née Perryman), were sharecroppers. His mother and father emphasized the importance of education, religion, and freedom of expression. Andrews' father was a self-taught artist whose drawings and paintings led to renown as the "Dot Man" and a retrospective at the Morris Museum of Art. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Publication Year: 1997
Language: English
Book Title: AMERICAN ICONS: FROM MADISON TO MANHATTAN
Item Height: 0.7in.
Author: J. Richard Gruber
Item Length: 12.1in.
Genre: Art
Topic: American / African American, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, American / General
Item Width: 9.2in.
Item Weight: 50.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 268 Pages
