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Artist
Robert Colescott
1925–2009 · American · Based in Tucson, Arizona, USA (d. 2009)
- University of California, Berkeley
- Atelier Fernand Léger, Paris
- Satirical Figurative Painting
- Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
Robert Colescott used satirical revisions of canonical Western paintings to expose racism, sexuality, stereotype and the politics of art history. His pictures are deliberately comic and uncomfortable, often inserting Black figures into familiar compositions.
Painting
Major Works
- 1975George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware
- 1975Eat Dem Taters
- 1980Shirley Temple Black and Bill Robinson White
- 1986Knowledge of the Past Is the Key to the Future: Matthew Henson and the Quest for the North Pole
- 1980Olympia
- 1979Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- 1976Natural Rhythm
- 1978The Wreckage of the Medusa
- 1985School Days
- 1992A Taste of Gumbo
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
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