{"title":"Blue Chip","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"14\" data-end=\"27\"\u003eBlue Chip\u003c\/strong\u003e brings together museum-caliber works by established artists whose influence has shaped modern and contemporary art. 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Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts — art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling. She has exhibited in major museums in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She is in the permanent collection of many museums including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Her first book, Tar Beach was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. She has written and illustrated eleven children’s books. 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After high school, Jarrell enlisted in the army, served in Korea and moved to Chicago. In 1954, Jarrell enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Graduating in 1958, Jarrell spent several years working as a commercial artist. By the early 1960s, Jarrell was exhibiting his work widely throughout the Midwest. Jarrell joined the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), a group that created Chicago's Wall of Respect mural, a seminal piece in the 1960s urban mural movement. It was there that he met his future wife, Elaine Annette Johnson, a clothing designer. With the eventual breakup of the Artists' Workshop of OBAC, Jarrell and fellow artists Jeff Donaldson and Barbara Jones-Hogu formed a collective called COBRA-Coalition of Black Revolutionary Artists, which later became AFRI-COBRA, the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists. AFRI-COBRA took as its central tenets black pride, social responsibility and the development of a new diasporic African identity. In 1971, Jarrell was recruited by Donaldson to teach at Howard University, where he pursued his MFA and continues there until 1977, when he took a position at the University of Georgia as assistant professor. He retired in 1988. Jarrell's work has been exhibited widely including: the Smithsonian International Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and at festivals and exhibitions in Nigeria, Germany, Sweden, France, Haiti and Martinique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eWadsworth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e co-founded the AfriCOBRA movement in the 1960s: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/africobra.com\/Introduction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ehttp:\/\/africobra.com\/\u003cwbr\u003eIntroduction.html\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEarly Trane is similar in style to some of the paintings featured here: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.inter-visions.com\/WJarrell.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.inter-\u003cwbr\u003evisions.com\/WJarrell.asp\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAs well as in the Georgia Museum of Art: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.accessatlanta.com\/news\/entertainment\/calendar\/georgia-museum-receives-major-collection\/nQzB9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.accessatlanta.\u003cwbr\u003ecom\/news\/entertainment\/\u003cwbr\u003ecalendar\/georgia-museum-\u003cwbr\u003ereceives-major-collection\/\u003cwbr\u003enQzB9\/\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe title Early Trane is a reference to Jazz musician John Coltrane.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA biography of \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eWadsworth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e was written called \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Wadsworth_Jarrell.html?id=0nvqAAAAMAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eWadsworth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e: The Artist as Revolutionary\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA documentary about \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e and his colleagues' work was produced in 2010, called \u003cb\u003eAfriCOBRA: Art for the People\u003c\/b\u003e - 2010: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.trustcollective.com\/portfolio\/content\/nola_africobra11.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.\u003cwbr\u003etrustcollective.com\/portfolio\/\u003cwbr\u003econtent\/nola_africobra11.php\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMore info on Wikipedia: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wadsworth_Jarrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ehttp:\/\/en.\u003cwbr\u003ewikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wadsworth_\u003cwbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BAIA Holding","offers":[{"title":"Untitled by Wadsworth Jarrell","offer_id":46518902031,"sku":"mikeharris_wadsworth","price":16500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/3941\/products\/wadsworth_2_crop_720885d7-bce2-40af-8c72-feac7952c984.jpg?v=1571439160"},{"product_id":"quinn-nathaniel-mary-the-comedian","title":"Quinn, Nathaniel Mary, (The Comedian)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The Comedian\" by Nathaniel Mary Quinn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e18 x 24 inches giclee print on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper 310gsm, 13\/75 limited edition, (2017) -- framed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Brooklyn Museum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from a difficult upbringing spent in an impoverished public housing project in Chicago, with a broken family, Nathaniel Mary Quinn makes large-scale, mixed-media drawings and paintings of collaged and fragmented figures, through which he demonstrates that we are all the sum of our experiences. 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His life and art are marked by exceptional talent, encompassing a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, including music, performing arts, history, literature and world art. 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Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1933, Gilliam spent his youth in Louisville, Kentucky. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Louisville in 1955, he served in the Army (1956-1958), then returned to the University for his Master of Arts degree (1961). In 1962 he moved to Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing an early figurative period, Gilliam began painting in an abstract idiom. In 1968, he affirmed his place among the American avant-garde with the creation of his draped works. Between 1965 and 1973 Gilliam exhibited at the Jefferson Place Gallery, where \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phillipscollection.org\/research\/american_art\/bios\/phillips_m-bio.htm\"\u003eMarjorie Phillips\u003c\/a\u003e saw \u003ci\u003eRed Petals\u003c\/i\u003e in 1967 and decided to host a show of his work at The Phillips Collection. This was his first one-person museum exhibition. Gilliam has shown at various Washington galleries and taught art in the Washington public school system, the Corcoran School of Art, the Maryland Art Institute in Baltimore, the University of Maryland, and Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He has received a number of awards, including National Endowment for the Arts Activities Grants in 1967, 1973–1975, and 1989, and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1971, which gave him the financial independence necessary to paint full-time. Gilliam lives and works in Washington, D.C. 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He was born to Alvin and Lillian Mayhew, whose common African American and Native American descent would become important to Richard. At a young age, his grandmother, Sarah Steele Mayhew, instilled in him a deep reverence for nature as she taught him “the nature lore, ways and attitudes” of American Indians. His appreciation for art also started at a young age, when each summer artists from New York City would come to Amityville to capture and paint the seashore. Mayhew was fascinated by these artists and started experimenting on his own using his father’s paints and brushes. When he was 14, one of the artists asked to see what he could do, which opened the door for Mayhew to join them regularly to paint and receive encouragement. In his late teens, Mayhew would frequently visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he studied Rembrandt and many American landscapists. He continued to learn about painting in an English magazine, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eApollo\u003c\/em\u003e, and, by the time he turned 17, he decided he wanted to be an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1945, Mayhew moved to New York City and became a freelance medical illustrator and was mentored by James Wilson Peale. In 1951, he started taking classes at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He studied under many teachers, such as Reuben Tam, Edwin Dickson, Victor Kandel, Gregorio Prestopino, Hans Hofmann and Max Beckman. During this time, Mayhew also took classes at the Pratt Institute and obtained a degree in art history from Columbia University. To survive as an artist, Mayhew was an illustrator for children’s books and designed lamps and china ware. He also had jobs singing with jazz combos and performed in the theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1955, Mayhew had his first solo exhibition at Brooklyn Museum and two years later his second solo exhibition at Morris Gallery in Greenwich Village. His early shows received high critical praise. The critics admired his use of light, color, and form, as they compared him to Claude Monet and Winslow Homer. Sidney Tillum of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArts\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, said Mayhew’s landscapes are “poised in their nostalgia are painted with…a sense of period, American style, with out being able to place it.” Mayhew has a talent to suggest his landscapes in a spiritual and mystical way, rather than depicting specific places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1959, Mayhew received the John Hay Whitney Fellowship, which enabled him to attend the Academia in Florence, Italy. After spending one year there, his teachers encouraged him to broaden his horizons and increase his influences. “They told me that being away from my own environment would enable me to be more objective about who I was and where I was.” Upon receiving The Ford Foundation Grant, Mayhew traveled to Europe to visit Museums and study a variety of artist’s works. Through this experience, Mayhew acquired a sense of how artists interpret their environments and lifestyles at that time. He studied color, composition, and design, and found his identity as an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1962, Mayhew returned to the States and started teaching courses at the Brooklyn Museum. During this time, the civil rights movement had begun its political challenge against racism and discriminatory policies, which left Mayhew feeling unsure of his own identity. So Mayhew and fellow African-American artists formed the Spiral Group. Together the group challenged and stimulated one another’s thinking through debates over how their artwork assisted the struggle for civil rights. Mayhew was enriched as an artist through this group, as he learned how to identify with other African-American artists and how their identity influenced their art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring this time, Mayhew began identifying his feelings through the use of color. He used a new technique to apply color, where he applied opaque paint over paint that allows underlying colors to show through. This resulted in different intensities of color that changed in different lighting. This new style was described by Bearden and Henderson, when they said it “adds new luster to the American vision in this field, with paintings that have poetic serenity and illusive quality of light. In \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArts\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, Mayhew’s landscapes were described as “incredible color abstractions…stunning and unexpected.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom 1963 to 1977, Mayhew taught at many schools, including the Pratt Institute, the Art Students League, Smith College, Hunter College, San Jose State University, and Sonoma State University. During this time, Mayhew received the National Institute of Arts and Letters grant in 1965 to further his creative work of outstanding merit. He also received the National Academy of Design Merit Award in 1977, for his distinguished paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom 1977 to 1991, Mayhew was a professor in the visual arts at the Pennsylvania State University. During his time at Penn State, he took a sabbatical to study the American landscape. His time in Mexico, Arizona, and California stimulated and challenged his imagination, since there was always new lighting, new space and new inspirations for his paintings. When returning he created 20 paintings in three months, making it the “most artistically prolific period of his life.” Working only from memory, he relives his experiences to recreate the landscapes on canvas. According to Mayhew, his “art is based on a feeling…of music and mood and sensitivity and the audio responses of sound and space. I want the essence of the inner soul to be on the canvas.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter retiring from Pennsylvania State University, Mayhew returned to Santa Cruz, California, where he now lives. Santa Cruz’s terrain reminds him of his home in Amityville and stimulates his imagination to continue to create. 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He was born to Alvin and Lillian Mayhew, whose common African American and Native American descent would become important to Richard. At a young age, his grandmother, Sarah Steele Mayhew, instilled in him a deep reverence for nature as she taught him “the nature lore, ways and attitudes” of American Indians. His appreciation for art also started at a young age, when each summer artists from New York City would come to Amityville to capture and paint the seashore. Mayhew was fascinated by these artists and started experimenting on his own using his father’s paints and brushes. When he was 14, one of the artists asked to see what he could do, which opened the door for Mayhew to join them regularly to paint and receive encouragement. In his late teens, Mayhew would frequently visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he studied Rembrandt and many American landscapists. He continued to learn about painting in an English magazine, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eApollo\u003c\/em\u003e, and, by the time he turned 17, he decided he wanted to be an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1945, Mayhew moved to New York City and became a freelance medical illustrator and was mentored by James Wilson Peale. In 1951, he started taking classes at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He studied under many teachers, such as Reuben Tam, Edwin Dickson, Victor Kandel, Gregorio Prestopino, Hans Hofmann and Max Beckman. During this time, Mayhew also took classes at the Pratt Institute and obtained a degree in art history from Columbia University. To survive as an artist, Mayhew was an illustrator for children’s books and designed lamps and china ware. He also had jobs singing with jazz combos and performed in the theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1955, Mayhew had his first solo exhibition at Brooklyn Museum and two years later his second solo exhibition at Morris Gallery in Greenwich Village. His early shows received high critical praise. The critics admired his use of light, color, and form, as they compared him to Claude Monet and Winslow Homer. Sidney Tillum of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArts\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, said Mayhew’s landscapes are “poised in their nostalgia are painted with…a sense of period, American style, with out being able to place it.” Mayhew has a talent to suggest his landscapes in a spiritual and mystical way, rather than depicting specific places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1959, Mayhew received the John Hay Whitney Fellowship, which enabled him to attend the Academia in Florence, Italy. After spending one year there, his teachers encouraged him to broaden his horizons and increase his influences. “They told me that being away from my own environment would enable me to be more objective about who I was and where I was.” Upon receiving The Ford Foundation Grant, Mayhew traveled to Europe to visit Museums and study a variety of artist’s works. Through this experience, Mayhew acquired a sense of how artists interpret their environments and lifestyles at that time. He studied color, composition, and design, and found his identity as an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1962, Mayhew returned to the States and started teaching courses at the Brooklyn Museum. During this time, the civil rights movement had begun its political challenge against racism and discriminatory policies, which left Mayhew feeling unsure of his own identity. So Mayhew and fellow African-American artists formed the Spiral Group. Together the group challenged and stimulated one another’s thinking through debates over how their artwork assisted the struggle for civil rights. Mayhew was enriched as an artist through this group, as he learned how to identify with other African-American artists and how their identity influenced their art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring this time, Mayhew began identifying his feelings through the use of color. He used a new technique to apply color, where he applied opaque paint over paint that allows underlying colors to show through. This resulted in different intensities of color that changed in different lighting. This new style was described by Bearden and Henderson, when they said it “adds new luster to the American vision in this field, with paintings that have poetic serenity and illusive quality of light. 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His time in Mexico, Arizona, and California stimulated and challenged his imagination, since there was always new lighting, new space and new inspirations for his paintings. When returning he created 20 paintings in three months, making it the “most artistically prolific period of his life.” Working only from memory, he relives his experiences to recreate the landscapes on canvas. According to Mayhew, his “art is based on a feeling…of music and mood and sensitivity and the audio responses of sound and space. I want the essence of the inner soul to be on the canvas.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter retiring from Pennsylvania State University, Mayhew returned to Santa Cruz, California, where he now lives. Santa Cruz’s terrain reminds him of his home in Amityville and stimulates his imagination to continue to create. 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Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1933, Gilliam spent his youth in Louisville, Kentucky. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Louisville in 1955, he served in the Army (1956-1958), then returned to the University for his Master of Arts degree (1961). In 1962 he moved to Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing an early figurative period, Gilliam began painting in an abstract idiom. In 1968, he affirmed his place among the American avant-garde with the creation of his draped works. Between 1965 and 1973 Gilliam exhibited at the Jefferson Place Gallery, where \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phillipscollection.org\/research\/american_art\/bios\/phillips_m-bio.htm\"\u003eMarjorie Phillips\u003c\/a\u003e saw \u003ci\u003eRed Petals\u003c\/i\u003e in 1967 and decided to host a show of his work at The Phillips Collection. This was his first one-person museum exhibition. Gilliam has shown at various Washington galleries and taught art in the Washington public school system, the Corcoran School of Art, the Maryland Art Institute in Baltimore, the University of Maryland, and Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He has received a number of awards, including National Endowment for the Arts Activities Grants in 1967, 1973–1975, and 1989, and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1971, which gave him the financial independence necessary to paint full-time. Gilliam lives and works in Washington, D.C. 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After high school, Jarrell enlisted in the army, served in Korea and moved to Chicago. In 1954, Jarrell enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Graduating in 1958, Jarrell spent several years working as a commercial artist. By the early 1960s, Jarrell was exhibiting his work widely throughout the Midwest. Jarrell joined the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), a group that created Chicago's Wall of Respect mural, a seminal piece in the 1960s urban mural movement. It was there that he met his future wife, Elaine Annette Johnson, a clothing designer. With the eventual breakup of the Artists' Workshop of OBAC, Jarrell and fellow artists Jeff Donaldson and Barbara Jones-Hogu formed a collective called COBRA-Coalition of Black Revolutionary Artists, which later became AFRI-COBRA, the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists. AFRI-COBRA took as its central tenets black pride, social responsibility and the development of a new diasporic African identity. In 1971, Jarrell was recruited by Donaldson to teach at Howard University, where he pursued his MFA and continues there until 1977, when he took a position at the University of Georgia as assistant professor. He retired in 1988. Jarrell's work has been exhibited widely including: the Smithsonian International Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and at festivals and exhibitions in Nigeria, Germany, Sweden, France, Haiti and Martinique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eWadsworth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e co-founded the AfriCOBRA movement in the 1960s: \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/africobra.com\/Introduction.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/africobra.com\/\u003cwbr\u003eIntroduction.html\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEarly Trane is similar in style to some of the paintings featured here: \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inter-visions.com\/WJarrell.asp\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.inter-\u003cwbr\u003evisions.com\/WJarrell.asp\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAs well as in the Georgia Museum of Art: \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessatlanta.com\/news\/entertainment\/calendar\/georgia-museum-receives-major-collection\/nQzB9\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.accessatlanta.\u003cwbr\u003ecom\/news\/entertainment\/\u003cwbr\u003ecalendar\/georgia-museum-\u003cwbr\u003ereceives-major-collection\/\u003cwbr\u003enQzB9\/\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe title Early Trane is a reference to Jazz musician John Coltrane.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA biography of \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eWadsworth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e was written called \u003ci\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Wadsworth_Jarrell.html?id=0nvqAAAAMAAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eWadsworth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e: The Artist as Revolutionary\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA documentary about \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e and his colleagues' work was produced in 2010, called \u003cb\u003eAfriCOBRA: Art for the People\u003c\/b\u003e - 2010: \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustcollective.com\/portfolio\/content\/nola_africobra11.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.\u003cwbr\u003etrustcollective.com\/portfolio\/\u003cwbr\u003econtent\/nola_africobra11.php\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMore info on Wikipedia: \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wadsworth_Jarrell\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/en.\u003cwbr\u003ewikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wadsworth_\u003cwbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ylYdc2znwlM?si=T7WpYBbWejwxcB39\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brandywine Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49893505794330,"sku":"jarrell_wadsworth_precious_treasures_cultivate_them","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/3941\/files\/ART-000678_original.png?v=1771758897"},{"product_id":"jarrell-wadsworth-tender-souls","title":"Jarrell, Wadsworth, (Tender Souls)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Tender Souls\" by \u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eW\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\" class=\"il\"\u003eadsworth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\" class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e22 x 30 inches, offset lithograph on paper, limited edition of 76 (1995) --unframed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: left; margin: 5px 8px 2px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/3941\/files\/wadsworth_jarrell_compact.jpg?3249\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWadsworth Jarrell\u003c\/strong\u003e b. 1929 in Albany, Georgia was born the youngest of six children and credits his father, a furniture maker, and the rest of his family for supporting his childhood interest in art. After high school, Jarrell enlisted in the army, served in Korea and moved to Chicago. In 1954, Jarrell enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Graduating in 1958, Jarrell spent several years working as a commercial artist. By the early 1960s, Jarrell was exhibiting his work widely throughout the Midwest. Jarrell joined the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), a group that created Chicago's Wall of Respect mural, a seminal piece in the 1960s urban mural movement. It was there that he met his future wife, Elaine Annette Johnson, a clothing designer. With the eventual breakup of the Artists' Workshop of OBAC, Jarrell and fellow artists Jeff Donaldson and Barbara Jones-Hogu formed a collective called COBRA-Coalition of Black Revolutionary Artists, which later became AFRI-COBRA, the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists. AFRI-COBRA took as its central tenets black pride, social responsibility and the development of a new diasporic African identity. In 1971, Jarrell was recruited by Donaldson to teach at Howard University, where he pursued his MFA and continues there until 1977, when he took a position at the University of Georgia as assistant professor. He retired in 1988. Jarrell's work has been exhibited widely including: the Smithsonian International Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and at festivals and exhibitions in Nigeria, Germany, Sweden, France, Haiti and Martinique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eWadsworth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e co-founded the AfriCOBRA movement in the 1960s: \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/africobra.com\/Introduction.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/africobra.com\/\u003cwbr\u003eIntroduction.html\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEarly Trane is similar in style to some of the paintings featured here: \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inter-visions.com\/WJarrell.asp\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.inter-\u003cwbr\u003evisions.com\/WJarrell.asp\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAs well as in the Georgia Museum of Art: \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessatlanta.com\/news\/entertainment\/calendar\/georgia-museum-receives-major-collection\/nQzB9\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.accessatlanta.\u003cwbr\u003ecom\/news\/entertainment\/\u003cwbr\u003ecalendar\/georgia-museum-\u003cwbr\u003ereceives-major-collection\/\u003cwbr\u003enQzB9\/\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe title Early Trane is a reference to Jazz musician John Coltrane.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA biography of \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eWadsworth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e was written called \u003ci\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Wadsworth_Jarrell.html?id=0nvqAAAAMAAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eWadsworth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e: The Artist as Revolutionary\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA documentary about \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e and his colleagues' work was produced in 2010, called \u003cb\u003eAfriCOBRA: Art for the People\u003c\/b\u003e - 2010: \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustcollective.com\/portfolio\/content\/nola_africobra11.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.\u003cwbr\u003etrustcollective.com\/portfolio\/\u003cwbr\u003econtent\/nola_africobra11.php\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMore info on Wikipedia: \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wadsworth_Jarrell\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/en.\u003cwbr\u003ewikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wadsworth_\u003cwbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJarrell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ylYdc2znwlM?si=T7WpYBbWejwxcB39\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Brandywine Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49893512741146,"sku":"jarrell_wadsworth_tender_soul","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/3941\/files\/ART-000679_original_97761638-b3a2-4ff5-8135-8842bf547512.png?v=1730403305"},{"product_id":"bearden-romare-three-women-on-easter-sunday","title":"Bearden, Romare, (Three Women On Easter Sunday)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Three Women On Easter Sunday\" by Romare Bearden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e26 x 32 inches, color lithograph print on paper, limited edition of 300, (1991) -- framed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg height=\"182\" width=\"303\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/3941\/files\/Romare_Bearden_pic_large.jpg?v=1482007769\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eROMARE BEARDEN (1914-1988)\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas born on September 2, 1911, to (Richard) Howard and Bessye Bearden in Charlotte, North Carolina, and died in New York City on March 12, 1988, at the age of 76. His life and art are marked by exceptional talent, encompassing a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, including music, performing arts, history, literature and world art. 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Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1933, Gilliam spent his youth in Louisville, Kentucky. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Louisville in 1955, he served in the Army (1956-1958), then returned to the University for his Master of Arts degree (1961). In 1962 he moved to Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFollowing an early figurative period, Gilliam began painting in an abstract idiom. In 1968, he affirmed his place among the American avant-garde with the creation of his draped works. Between 1965 and 1973 Gilliam exhibited at the Jefferson Place Gallery, where \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phillipscollection.org\/research\/american_art\/bios\/phillips_m-bio.htm\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarjorie Phillips\u003c\/a\u003e saw \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRed Petals\u003c\/i\u003e in 1967 and decided to host a show of his work at The Phillips Collection. This was his first one-person museum exhibition. Gilliam has shown at various Washington galleries and taught art in the Washington public school system, the Corcoran School of Art, the Maryland Art Institute in Baltimore, the University of Maryland, and Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He has received a number of awards, including National Endowment for the Arts Activities Grants in 1967, 1973–1975, and 1989, and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1971, which gave him the financial independence necessary to paint full-time. Gilliam lives and works in Washington, D.C. 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His life and art are marked by exceptional talent, encompassing a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, including music, performing arts, history, literature and world art. 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