| LC control no. | n 83183149 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Driskell, David C. |
| Variant(s) | Driskell, David |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1931-06-07 |
| Death date | 2020-04-01 |
| Place of birth | Eatonton (Ga.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Field of activity | Art |
| Affiliation | University of Maryland at College Park Catholic University of America Fisk University David C. Driskell Center Aaron Douglass Gallery Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation |
| Profession or occupation | Artists College teachers Art historians African American artists |
| Found in | His David Driskell, c1980: title page (David Driskell) page 56 (b. 6/7/31, Eatonton, Ga.) LC data base, 8-29-83 (heading: Driskell, David C.; usage: David C. Driskell) Driskell Center WWW site, viewed January 23, 2014 (David C. Driskell; artist, working primarily in collage and mixed media as well as printmaking; M.F.A., Catholic University of America, 1962; post-graduate study, The Netherlands Institute for the History of Art; joined faculty at University of Maryland Department of Art in 1977, retired in 1998; Driskell Center established in his honour) African American National Biography, accessed December 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Driskell, David; David Clyde Driskell; painter, art teacher, art museum curator / administrator; born 1931 Eatonton, Georgia, United States; BA in Art at Howard University (1955); received a master of fine arts degree from Catholic University of America; completed postgraduate work at the Netherlands Institute for the History of Art in The Hague (1964); assistant professor of art at Talladega College; professor of art and chair of the Department of Art at Fisk University; founded the Aaron Douglass Gallery; chair of the department of art at the University of Maryland, College Park (1977); named Distinguished Professor in Art at the University of Maryland (1995); awarded both the National Art Education Association's Annual Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award in Art from the Catholic University of America; won the President's Medal from the University of Maryland, College Park; created the David C.Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans; awarded the National Humanities Medal; chair of the commission for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art; became president of the Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation) Washington Post, viewed Apr. 8, 2020 (died April 1, 2020, Washington, D.C., of complications from COVID-19) <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/david-driskell-advocate-for-african-american-art-dies-at-88-of-coronavirus/2020/04/03/9217ab4c-74f3-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html> |
| Associated language | eng |
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