Seated Figure Charles Alston 1970

Seated Figure
Charles Alston 1970
From the collection of
SCAD Museum of Art
Seated Figure embodies many of the styles and media Charles Alston experimented with during his acclaimed career. An illustrator, muralist, painter, sculptor and educator, Alston was an important contributor to the art of the Harlem Renaissance, and his social activism also informed his artistic practice. While perhaps best known for his figurative works, Alston also championed abstraction. Seated Figure showcases Alston?s explorations in form and dimensionality, particularly in relation to Cubism and his ability to optimize tonality within a monochromatic palette. The angular forms of the figure in this drawing recall his portrait paintings, and the vertical, architectonic marks also reference his cityscapes and nonrepresentational abstractions.
Details
Title: Seated Figure
Creator: Charles Alston
Date Created: 1970
Physical Dimensions: w495.3 x h660.4 in
Type: Pastel on paper
Rights: http://www.scad.edu/website/privacy.cfm
External Link: http://www.scadmoa.org/art/collections/seated-figure

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Charles Alston
Nov 28, 1907 - Apr 27, 1977

Charles Henry Alston was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance; Alston was the first African-American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Alston designed and painted murals at the Harlem Hospital and the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building. In 1990 Alston's bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. became the first image of an African American displayed at the White House.
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