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Nude Figures, Faces in Black and Red Paint on Metalic Gold Ground

Creator: Alvin Carl Hollingsworth
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
Hollingsworth intertwins faces and figures along in black and red on a metallic ground. There are 3 nude figures in total
Acrylic and metallic paint on board
Signed lower right
BIOGRAPHY:
Alvin Hollingsworth, African American Artist. comic-strip illustrator and painter, was born in New York City and began drawing at the age of four, and by the time he was twelve, he was an artist assistant at Holyoke Publishing Company for Catman's Comics. A year later he was doing illustrations for Crime Comics.
His paintings dealt with themes of contemporary social issues such as the Civil Rights Movement, women's struggles, spiritual concepts, jazz, city life, time and space and dance. He was also a mural designer, author, poet, and lecturer.
He graduated from the High School of Music and Art in New York City and then graduated Phi Beta Kappa from City College of New York with a fine arts degree. He later did graduate work.
NBC network hired him to tour the East Coast lecturing and demonstrating painting and to host a ten-part series, "You're Part of Art." As a result, he became a widely known figure in the art world.
By 1953, he was creating his own comic strip that was nationally syndicated by the Associated Press in one-hundred forty newspapers. From 1980 until his retirement in 1998, Hollingsworth was a full Professor of Art at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States, New York
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	acrylic and metallic paint
Condition:	Good.
Creation Date:	1970s circa
Styles / Movements:	Modernism, African American, Contemporary
Incollect Reference #:	393287

Dimensions

W.	7.5 in;	H.	9.5 in;
W.	19.05 cm;	H.	24.13 cm;

Message from Seller:

You'll find an eclectic group of art works at Robert Funk Fine Art. 45 years of experience has shaped Director Robert Funk's multi-perspective approach to presenting art. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with great teachers such as first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish. In Graduate School he worked with famed critic E.C. Goossen and went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director, and Art Collector.