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Lane College - Jackson, Tennessee

Portrait #1599
Subject/Title:
Market
Artist: Feelings, Tom
Date Created: unknown
Owner/Location: Lane College
545 Lane Avenue
Jackson, TN 38301-4598
www.lanecollege.edu
Frame Dimensions: 21 x 25
Image Dimensions: 12 x 17
Materials/Media: Charcoal drawing
Date Documented: 15 August 2008
Condition: Excellent

Description:Portrait of people at a market with booths covered with white umbrellas.
History of Work:Tom Feelings was born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York. The artist is regarded as the personification of the ""black is beautiful"" philosophy. Feelings spent a lifetime as a painter, sculptor, and book illustrator underscoring this message. From the dawn of the U. S. civil rights era, when he came of age as an artist, Feelings was passionately committed to the mission of encouraging black children to understand their own spiritual and physical beauty. Feelings remained faithful to that mission for more than 40 years.
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