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William Edouard Scott

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William Edouard Scott (1884 - 1964) was active/lived in Illinois, Indiana / Haiti.  William Scott is known for Portrait, mural, genre-Haiti and landscape painting.

William Edouard Scott was born on March 11, 1884 in Indianapolis, Indiana.  The son of Caroline Russell and Edward Miles Scott, William enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle thanks to his father's employment in the wholesale grocery business and the relatively small size of his family (Hardman 100).  Scott was one of only two children.  The environment in which the young Scott grew up lent him "a kind of strength, stability, and continuity" that was often lacking in African American communities of the same period (Hardman 109).     

Scott's first formal study of art was with Otto Stark, a Hoosier Group artist and director of Indianapolis's Manual High School art department (Perry).  Scott later returned to aid Stark in the school's drawing department after his graduation in 1903—crediting Scott as the first African American to teach in the Indianapolis public school system (Perry; Hardman 111).  Encouraged by Stark, Scott migrated to Chicag   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 15176 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for William Edouard Scott available:    John Hardrick,  Randolph LaSalle Coats,  Frederick Douglas Jones Jr,  Palmer Cole (Hedgeman) Hayden,  Otto Stark,  Laura Wheeler Waring,  Homer Davisson,  William Clusmann,  Charles Sebree,  William Frederick Kaeser,  Lucie (Lucille) Hartrath,  Joseph Samuel Delaney,  Hale Aspacio Woodruff,  Charles Henry Alston,  Selma Hortense Burke,  Edmund Brucker,  William J Forsyth,  Varaldo Cariani,  Lois Mailou Jones,  Leota Williams Loop,  Glenn (Glen) Cooper Henshaw,  Benny Andrews,  Hughie Lee-Smith,  Maude Eggemeyer



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Facts about William Edouard Scott

   Publications  Book References:  33
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William Edouard Scott
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Art from the Chicago Public Schools June 2002 Eskridge, Robert; E Seaton Yes
American Art Review Evolution of African-American Art August 2000 Hampton, R Kumasi Yes
American Art Review A Shared Heritage March 1996 Warkel, Harriet G Yes
33 Book References for William Edouard Scott
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Kennedy, Elizabeth (Editor) Chicago Modern 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New
(Exhibition catalog)		 176 Yes
2004 Wintz, Carry and Paul Finkelman (Editors) Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance 2 volumes 1341 Yes
2002 Becker, Heather Art for the People: WPA Murals in Chicago Public Schools, 1904-1943 256 Yes
2002 Creps, Bob The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Scultors & Engravers 1629 No
2001 Gray, Mary Lachritz; F Schulze A Guide to Chicago's Murals 488 Yes
2000 Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia 301 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Britton, Crystal African American Art: The Long Struggle 128 Yes
1994 San Antonio Museum of Art African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 Yes
1993 Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present 542 Yes
1993 Newton, Judith/Carol Weiss A Grand Tradition: The Art and Artists of the Hoosier Salon, 1925-1990 479 No
1991 Thomison, Dennis The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions 395 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1989 McElroy, Guy C (others) African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection 125 Yes
1989 Reynolds, Gary/Beryl J Wright Against the Odds African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Editor TANNER-HARPER-SCOTT (Evans-Tibbs Collection) 18 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Low, Augustus & Clift, Virgil Encyclopedia of Black America 921 No
1978 Lewis, Samella Art: African American 246 Yes
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1973 Fine, Elsa Honig The Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity 310 Yes
1971 Sparks, Esther A Biographical Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors in Illinois 730 No
1943 Porter, James A Modern Negro Art 272 No
1940 Ball, Charlotte (editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists 790 No
1940 Editor American Negro Exposition 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 1932 Black Artists Exhibition Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
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