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William Ellsworth Artis

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William Ellsworth Artis (1914 - 1977) was active/lived in Nebraska, Minnesota.  William Artis is known for Ceramics, terra cotta pottery, portrait and elongated figure sculpture, teaching.

Born in Washington, North Carolina, William Artis became a prominent Black-American ceramist, sculptor and teacher.  He was best known for a series of terra cotta* and stoneware* heads of black youths, which he created in the 1930s and 1940s such as Head of a Girl, 1933, exhibited at the Harmon Foundation*, and Weariness, 1934, exhibited at the Salon of America* at Radio City Music Hall.  Of these types of work, it was written that they are Art Deco in style and "typically have an introverted impassivity and a spiritual appeal." (James, 23)

In 1933, Artis studied at the Art Students League* in New York City, where he won the Harmon Foundation Prize in 1933. He then served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and after the war, studied on the G.I. Bill at Syracuse University with Ivan Mestrovic, Yugoslavian expatriate sculptor.  Artis earned a B.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1950 and an M.F.A. in 1951, and was a student at the Harlem Communi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6556 characters.]  Artist bio

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19 Book References for William Ellsworth Artis
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
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface) St. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 625 No
1994 Reynolds, Donald Martin Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium 275 Yes
1991 Marlor, Clark S The Salons of America
(Exhibition catalog)		 242 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1978 Lewis, Samella Art: African American 246 Yes
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Driskell, David C Amistad II Afro-American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1973 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1973 927 No
1971 Lewis, S. and Waddy, R. Black Artists on Art volume 2 140 Yes
1960 Dover, Cedric American Negro Art 186 Yes
1943 Porter, James A Modern Negro Art 272 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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