Robert Colescott
Robert H. Colescott (August 26, 1925 – June 4, 2009) was an American
painter. He is known for
satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter reflections on being
African American. He studied with
Fernand Léger in
Paris. Colescott's work is in many major public collections, including (in addition to the
Albright-Knox) those of the
Museum of Modern Art in New York, the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the
Baltimore Museum of Art and the
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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