Representative work by Jan Yoors
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Jan Yoors

b. 1922, Antwerp, Belgium · Based in New York, NY, USA (d. 1977)

  • Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
  • School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) London
  • Monumental Wool Tapestries
  • Photography
  • Sculpture
  • Writing

Jan Yoors was a Belgian-American artist and author who lived among the Romani community in his youth, later creating monumental handwoven modernist wool tapestries and striking black-and-white street photography in New York.

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