Family Unity by Dr. John Biggers

Dr. John Biggers, an internationally acclaimed painter, sculptor, teacher and philosopher, was born in Gastonia, North Carolina on April 13, 1924. Biggers explored his own life and heritage through the study of art at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in Hampton, Virginia. Biggers' artistic talent was encouraged and nurtured by Viktor Lowebfeld, an art educator at Hampton Institute.

In 1943 while at Hampton, Biggers' work was featured in the exhibition "Young Negro Art", present at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Six years later Biggers relocated to Houston and established the art department at Texas Southern University, where he served as professor for more than 30 years.

Dr. Biggers received a UNESCO fellowship in 1957 that enabled him to become one of the first African American artists to visit Africa. His art was profoundly influenced by his direct contact with the wonder of the continent and its people.

Dr. Biggers retired from teaching in 1983 and devoted himself exclusively to his art. The works of John Biggers features prominently in the history of African American art and is included in private collections and museums at home and abroad.



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Introducing First Lady Edition of Michelle Obama Life-Like Figurine From Thomas Blackshear's Ebony Visions Collection

With all the aspects of a highly collectible and rare offering, collectors and enthusiasts anticipate high demand for this First Lady Edition. Artfully detailed, the figurine captures the essence of Michelle Obama...elegant, sophisticated yet disarmingly down-to-earth, traits she is certain to pass on to her own lovely daughters.

Ripon, CA (BlackNews.com) -- Limited to only 3000 pieces worldwide, Thomas Blackshear's figurine of Mrs. Obama is an heirloom quality work of art that can be passed down for generations. Mothers, daughters, sisters, cousins, girlfriends and co-workers, who appreciate value and true character, will want to own this significant piece of modern history. However, considering the popularity and limited production of Blackshear's soon-to-be-released First Lady Edition, it is expected that this figurine won't be available long. Orders should be placed now at Collector Hub to guarantee delivery of First Lady Edition of Michelle Obama.

In the likeness of her official White House portrait, Thomas Blackshear's interpretation of the First Lady is sure to impress. A lovely complement to the President Barack Obama figurine; Michelle wears a classic sleeveless dress resembling the one designed for her by Michael Kors. As in the official photograph of Mrs. Obama taken in the Blue Room of the White House by Joyce N. Bognosian, the First Lady Edition figurine bares her delicately sculpted arms to show off her signature style.

Much like the highly sought after Presidential Edition of the Barack Obama figurine, collectors will be lining up to purchase the First Lady Edition Michelle Obama. Both pieces are part of Blackshear's Ebony Visions(TM) Collection and pay honor to America's first African-American Couple in the White House. Order both figurines today at Collector Hub and begin a personal legacy that can be handed down from mother to daughter or other members in the family tree.

America's infatuation with its First Ladies is not at all a passing trend. President's wives are an intricate part of this nation's history. Serving their country silently, the presidential wives have remained loyal and supportive from the past to the present. First and foremost a mom and wife, Michelle Obama is an inspiring example of one who believes it is also her duty to serve her country.

"I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation." -- Michelle Obama, Speech at the Democratic National Convention

Kicking off her campaign Let's Move, Obama practices what she preaches by working with parents and community to help fight obesity in children. A motivating example of hope, commitment and determination, First Lady Michelle Obama is sure to be an unforgettable figure in American history and Blackshear's First Lady Edition figurine is an excellent way to celebrate this remarkable woman.


About Thomas Blackshear:
Widely known for his dignified and uniquely powerful depictions of African-Americans, Thomas is one of the hottest contemporary collectible artists in the world. His imaginative portrayals are full of lifelike details that transcend stereotypes and resonate with universal truths. Thomas has helped bring the African-American experience to life in a way that's never been conceived of before. A touring exhibit of his Black Heritage works premiered at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. He has been honored with the coveted International Collectible Artist award. He has also been featured on The 700 Club, Ebony/Jet Showcase, and in The Saturday Evening Post. Blackshear has created works for Disney, Coca-Cola, National Geographic, the United States Postal Service and Universal Studios; and these are just a few of his accolades.

About Collector Hub
Formerly known as Blackshear Online, Collector Hub, established in 2001 is the Internet's preeminent gathering place for collectors of internationally acclaimed African American artist, Thomas Blackshear. Our goal is to continue to be the most comprehensive Thomas Blackshear community by providing the essential link collectors need to interact and share ideas and information, and conveniently and confidently purchase Thomas Blackshear products online. Visit our web site at www.CollectorHub.com or call us at (209) 599-8599. And don't forget to bookmark our new web site.

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Fang Mask - African

The Fang people used masks in their secret societies. Members of this male society wore the Ngil masks during the initiation of new members and the persecution of wrongdoers. Masqueraders, clad in raffia costumes and attended by helpers, would materialize in the village after dark, illuminated by flickering torchlight.

The Fang tribe are spread over a vast area along the Atlantic coast line of equatorial Africa and can be found in Cameroon equatorial Guinea and Gabon namely along the bank of the Ogowe river.


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CONTENT OF CHARACTER BY GEORGE HUNT

A SERIGRAPH PORTFOLIO SERIES BY GEORGE HUNT
15" x 20"
Retail Price 3,250.00

George Hunt was born more than 60 years ago of humble beginnings, and over a lifetime of living, learning, watching, growing, creating and translating his visions into paintings, he has emerged as one of the most important African-American artist in the South. George Hunt has made a significant mark on not just African-American art, but American art as a whole.


Memphis artist George Hunt was born in rural Louisiana, near Lake Charles, and his grandmother noted early in life that he had a special power to “see things.” In addition to large doses of indigenous music, one of the things he saw was the civil rights movement and that experience became a painting in 1997, which in turn, became a US Postage Stamp issued in 2005 as part of the United States Postal Service series, “To Form A More Perfect Nation.”

George Hunt was honored for his painting, “America Cares/Little Rock Nine” at ceremonies in Little Rock and Memphis. The paint was originally commissioned for the Central High School Museum, but first spent five years hanging in the White House in Washington, D.C. First Lady, Hillary Clinton, in a personal note to Mr. Hunt, wrote, “we are grateful that our visitors and staff have such a powerful image of hope and freedom to greet, inspire and inform them.”

In 2002, the U.S. Congress brought attention to America’s indigenous music by officially declaring 2003 as the “Year of the Blues.” George Hunt was named the Official Artist for the “Year of the Blues,” and he created a new body of work for a national tour. The exhibit, ‘Conjurating the Blues, The High Cotton Tour,” consisted of 26 large paintings that depicted the history of blues music in America. The title painting proudly hung in the grand lobby of Radio City Music Hall in New York during the opening tribute show for the Year of the Blues as Martin Scorcese filmed the documentary movie, “Lightnin’ in a Bottle.” The exhibit continued on to Seattle at Experience Music Project, Chicago, Memphis, Helena, AR (King Biscuit Festival) and Clarksdale, MS (Delta Blues Museum.)

George Hunt appeared at great length in many segments of the 13-part “Year of the Blues” PBS radio series telling vivid stories of his experience with blues music, rooted deep in the rural south. Later in 2003, the Blues Foundation bestowed a coveted “Keeping the Blues Alive” award on George.

George Hunt spent his childhood in Texas and Hot Springs, Arkansas. After high school, Hunt attended college at the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff on a football scholarship and studied art as a career. He did postgraduate studies at the University of Memphis and at New York University. Mr. Hunt spent three decades teaching art education and coaching at George Washington Carver High School in Memphis before dedicating full time to painting. He now works in a studio overlooking world-famous Beale Street.

Ninety-nine percent of what George Hunt paints come from the Southern African-American experience, especially the folk tradition, civil rights movement, the mythic heroism of Black manhood, and of course blues music and culture. His mother-in-law owned a jukejoint in Helena, Arkansas called the Dreamland Cafe. There, George Hunt listened to blues legends like Sonny Boy Williamson and watched the patrons dance, drink, eat catfish, court, sport and score. The visions for George Hunt's art have been steeped in the music and life passages of blues people.

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"Solo" by James Denmark

"Solo" by James Denmark
Edition size=185
Medium: Hand Pulled Serigraph
Paper: Two Ply Museum Board
Image size=30"w x 22"h

Retail Price: 1200

James Denmark, born in Winter Haven, Florida in 1936, is part of an artistic family. He was exposed to color and form at an early age by his grandmother, a wire sculptor and quilt artist. His grandfather was a bricklayer noted for his unique custom designed molds and his mother was gifted with an intuitive eye for design and detail. This rich beginning is the root of James Denmark's creative expression.

Denmark earned his Master of Fine Arts Degree at Pratt Institute of Fine Arts in New York. During this period he was heavily influenced by the abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock, Clifford Still, and William deKooning. The African-American masters Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Ernest Crichlow instilled in him and appreciation of African American artistic heritage.

Denmark's collages, watercolors, woodcuts and reproductions are consistently and eagerly sought by galleries and collectors worldwide. James Denmark lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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SHEER ELEGANCE by James Denmark


TITLE: "SHEER ELEGANCE"
MEDIUM: HAND PULLED SERIGRAPH
SIZE: 18" x 24"
EDITION: 185 REGULAR EDITION (PLUS PROOFING)
PAPER: TWO PLY MUSEUM BOARD
ALL PRINTS WILL BE HAND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST IN GRAPHITE PENCIL

Retail Price: $1200

James Denmark, born in Winter Haven, Florida in 1936, is part of an artistic family. He was exposed to color and form at an early age by his grandmother, a wire sculptor and quilt artist. His grandfather was a bricklayer noted for his unique custom designed molds and his mother was gifted with an intuitive eye for design and detail. This rich beginning is the root of James Denmark's creative expression.

Denmark earned his Master of Fine Arts Degree at Pratt Institute of Fine Arts in New York. During this period he was heavily influenced by the abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock, Clifford Still, and William deKooning. The African-American masters Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Ernest Crichlow instilled in him and appreciation of African American artistic heritage.

Denmark's collages, watercolors, woodcuts and reproductions are consistently and eagerly sought by galleries and collectors worldwide. James Denmark lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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The Landlord by Paul Goodnight


The Landlord by Paul Goodnight
Image Size 24 x 32
Hand Signed & Numbered!

Retail Price $125



Artist Statement

"I would like to be a skilled and consummate draftsman. I try to use a collection of sensuous colors, often revealing mysterious hidden forms. I would love to convey the ability to see between the figures, melding and infusing them into an environment of endless nuances where abstraction and representational images are comfortable in the same space and where passion and humanity resonate. Once I learn to do this well, I will be obligated to pass this on, just as this information has been based on to me. Thank God for our masters!

I also try to offer the rich evidence of love in the composition of ordinary Black people whom I've witnessed in my travels around the world. Men, women and children who are familiar, intimate and engaging have stories written all over them, waiting to be told. My goal is to expose these stories to delight the eye and to satisfy the spirit -- in short, to make them live."

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Brazilian Boat Men / For Colors Only - by Paul Goodnight


Hand-Pulled Serigraph
Image Size: 27 x 39

PAUL GOODNIGHT

Art has been Paul Goodnight's saving grace in his recovery from his traumatic experience in Vietnam when he lost his ability to speak from seeing the horrors of war. Though some thought he had lost his mind, he knew he hadn't and began to communicate with his drawings of the horrors of war. With the regaining of his voice he enrolled in Vesper George School of Art and eventually earned a Bachelor's Degree from Massachusetts College of Art in 1976.

Goodnight has developed his own unique aesthetic philosophy to document the humanity of Black people around the world. He often incorporates African themes and symbols to provide depths of history and culture. He has traveled extensively, living among the people of Russia, China, Haiti, Nicaragua and Brazil. What he finds are the universal themes for his work seen through diverse cultural lenses.

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"Autumn Kiss" by Jason Phillips


18x24 inches
oil on gallery wrapped canvas
$600

Jason H. Phillips has mixed hues since the age of five and has been his deepest passion through the years of his creative development. Phillips attended Cass Tech High School, Detroit, MI, where he had the ability to explore his art. The vast exploration of his brush strokes against canvas had opened up the door to various competitions. Phillips won scholar-ships and awards in many local and national art contests and exhibitions, including the Marie W. Sharpe Art Scholarship at Colorado College in 1992. This experience allowed Phillips the opportunity to enlarge the territory of his gift under the intense mentoring of nationally renowned painters such as Charles Parness and Janet Fish. Phillips achieved his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Wayne State University and is an active member of the National Conference of Artists and participates in fruition of the mission of the Arts League of Michigan. Phillips is the founder of Roots Visual Designs, LLC (RVD), a design house established by Phillips in 1996. Many of Detroit’s prestigious communal information promotions were created by the ingenious eye of Phillips and have been the captivation of the observation of the masses. Major professional companies such as McDonald’s Corporation, Pelle Pelle Fashion, and Miller Genuine Draft have had the privilege of featuring the inventive trademarks and adver-tisements of Phillips’s works.

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Inner City by Andrew Turner - African American Art


Inner City by Andrew Turner

Original Acrylic on canvas

48" x 72"

Retail Price: $10000


Andrew Turner was born in l944 in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Temple University's Tyler School of Art. Andrew's work has been widely acclaimed, with many solo exhibitions and participation in group exhibitions. He has taught art in grades K-1 2 in the Chester, Pennsylvania Public Schools and in correctional centers. His appointments include Artist-in-Residence and Curator, Deshong Museum, Chester, PA; Lecturer, Widener University; Lecturer, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; and, he toured and lectured in The People's Republic of China. Collections which hold Andrew's paintings include Woody Allen, Dr. Maya Angelou, ARCO Chemical Company, Bell Telephone Company, Dr. Constance Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cosby, Edie Huggins, Eric Lindros, Mr. and Mrs Louis Madonni, Moses Malone, Penn State University, the artist formerly known as Prince, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sorgenti, Swarthmore College, Mrs. Marilyn Wheaton, and Widener University Deshong Museum, just to name a few. He has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His Philadelphia commissions include: WDAS FM (1996); Marco Solo, (published by J. Schwinn and G. Harlow, illustrated by Andrew Turner) Reverse Angle Productions, Inc. (I 995); and Robin Hood Dell, Fairmount Park (1985).

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Untitled Study by Lois M. Jones















Retail Price $5,000.00


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Sax Man by Andrew Turner


Original acrylic on board

26 x 42 image size

Retail Price: $8000

Andrew Turner was born in l944 in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Temple University's Tyler School of Art. Andrew's work has been widely acclaimed, with many solo exhibitions and participation in group exhibitions. He has taught art in grades K-1 2 in the Chester, Pennsylvania Public Schools and in correctional centers. His appointments include Artist-in-Residence and Curator, Deshong Museum, Chester, PA; Lecturer, Widener University; Lecturer, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; and, he toured and lectured in The People's Republic of China. Collections which hold Andrew's paintings include Woody Allen, Dr. Maya Angelou, ARCO Chemical Company, Bell Telephone Company, Dr. Constance Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cosby, Edie Huggins, Eric Lindros, Mr. and Mrs Louis Madonni, Moses Malone, Penn State University, the artist formerly known as Prince, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sorgenti, Swarthmore College, Mrs. Marilyn Wheaton, and Widener University Deshong Museum, just to name a few. He has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His Philadelphia commissions include: WDAS FM (1996); Marco Solo, (published by J. Schwinn and G. Harlow, illustrated by Andrew Turner) Reverse Angle Productions, Inc. (I 995); and Robin Hood Dell, Fairmount Park (1985).

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