Alice Taylor Gafford
| ụdịekere | nwanyị  |
|---|---|
| Aha enyere | Alice |
| Ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya | 15 Ọgọọst 1886 |
| Ebe ọmụmụ | Tecumseh |
| Ụbọchị ọnwụ ya | 27 Ọktoba 1981 |
| Ebe olili | Los Angeles National Cemetery |
| Ọrụ ọ na-arụ | nurse, onye ese, onye nkuzi |
| ikike nwebiisinka dị ka onye okike | Ọrụ nwebiisinka chekwara |
Alice Taylor Gafford (ubochí irí na isé n'ọnwa Ọgọst, 1886 rụo ubochí irí abụọ na asaá n'ọnwa Ọktoba, 1981) bụ ónyé nọọsụ America, onye nkuzi, na ónyé na-ese ihe, nke bi na Los Angeles.
Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ[dezie | dezie ebe o si]
A mụrụ Alice Taylor na Tecumseh, Kansas, otu n'ime ụmụ iri. Nné na nnà ya bụ Benjamin na Alice Armstead Taylor.[1]
Ọrụ[dezie | dezie ebe o si]
Gafford bụ onye nọọsụ afọ iri abụọ na ise tupu ọ malite ọrụ nka. Ihe a ma ama site na ọrụ mbụ ya bụ oge ọ rụrụ na American Red Cross na Alaska (1915), ma soro Daniel Hale Williams rụọ ọrụ na Chicago.[2]
Ọ kwagara Los Angeles na 1922. Ọ zụrụ na Otis Art Institute (nke a na-akpọzi Otis College of Art and Design) wee nweta asambodo nkụzi na UCLA na 1951, mgbe ọ dị afọ iri isii na ise, ma kụzie nka na mmemme agụmakwụkwọ ndị okenye.[3][4]
Ọ na-arụsi ọrụ ike na ọbọdọ Val Verde, na-akụzi ma na-eme ihe ngosi nka, ma na-eduzi Val Verde Women's Cultural Society.[5][6] A na-egosikarị ọrụ ya, nke ọtụtụ n'ime ha bụ ndụ ma ọ bụ ihe nkiri ala, n'afọ ndị ikpeazụ ya.[7][8][9] Mgbe ọ dị afọ 81, ọ natara ọrụ ise foto nke ndị Africa America iri na abụọ a ma ama, maka ngosi na ụlọ ọrụ Family Savings and Loan Association na Los Angeles.[10]
Gafford sonyere n'ịtọ ntọala Los Angeles Negro Art Association na 1937, na ụlọ ngosi Eleven Associated Artists (mgbe e mesịrị Art West Association) na etiti Los Angeles. Ndị na-ese ihe na Los Angeles na-adịte aka gụnyere ndị Africa America Beulah Woodard, William Pajaud na ónyé China America na-ese egwu Tyrus Wong.[11][12]
A kpọrọ ya "ónyé isi nke ndị na-ese ihe ojii na Los Angeles" iji kwado idu ndú ọbọdọ ya.[13][14][15] Ihe osise mmanụ ya bụ akụkụ nke ihe ngosi Negro History Week na Doheny Library na 1953.[16]
Ndụ onwe onye[dezie | dezie ebe o si]
Alice Taylor lụrụ Louis Sherman Gafford, ónyé agha nke Agha Ụwa Mbụ, na 1928. Ọ nwụrụ n'afọ 1959, ma kwụsị ise ihe n'afọ 1975, mgbe ọ nwesịrị ọrịa anya. Alice Taylor Gafford nwụrụ na 1981, mgbe ọ dị afọ 95, e lie ozu ya na Los Angeles National Cemetery.[17]
Ihe Nketa[dezie | dezie ebe o si]
A maara Gafford màkà ọrụ ya n'ịtọ ntọala na ịzụlite ọtụtụ ìgwè nka na ndịda California, gụnyere ihe ngosi nka Val Verde kwa afọ, nke e mechara gụọ aha ya.[18][19] A na-echeta ya dị ka nwanyị Africa-America na-ese ihe na Los Angeles, yana dị ka onye na-ese egwu nke ghọrọ ónyé na-arụpụta ihe karịsịa mgbe ọ dị agadi.[20][21] A na-anọchite anya ya site na ihe osise na nchịkọta nke Mahadum Howard, Long Beach Museum of Art, na Bowers Museum, n'etiti ụlọ ọrụ ndị ọzọ.
Edensibia[dezie | dezie ebe o si]
- ↑ "One of LA's Finest, Alice Taylor Gafford," African-American Registry.. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved on 2014-11-18.
- ↑ "Artist Receives Accolades for her Many Achievements," Los Angeles Sentinel (September 5, 1974): C2.
- ↑ Miriam Matthews, "Gafford, Alice," in Darlene Clark Hine, ed. Black Women in America: Dance, Sports, and Visual Arts, Encyclopedia of Black Women in America (New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1997). African-American History Online. Facts On File, Inc. (accessed November 17, 2014).
- ↑ "Life Begins at 80 for Gracious Artist," Los Angeles Sentinel (July 13, 1967): A5.
- ↑ Jocelyn Y. Stewart, "Forgotten Oasis of Freedom: Val Verde, the 'black Palm Springs,' provided an escape from racism--if only for a weekend," Los Angeles Times (March 2, 1994).
- ↑ "Founders' Day and Mother's Day Observed at Val Verde, Sunday," The California Eagle (May 12, 1949): 12.
- ↑ "Arts League Awards Veteran Artist," Los Angeles Sentinel (February 16, 1967): C2.
- ↑ "Gafford Exhibit at Security," Los Angeles Sentinel (March 5, 1964): D1.
- ↑ "Museum Displays Gafford Works," Los Angeles Times (December 5, 1965): OC13.
- ↑ "Artist Receives Accolades for her Many Achievements," Los Angeles Sentinel (September 5, 1974): C2.
- ↑ William Pajaud | Now Dig This! digital archive | Hammer Museum (en). Hammer Museum. Retrieved on 2018-10-25.
- ↑ Jones (2017-03-17). South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (in en). Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822374169.
- ↑ "Artist Receives Accolades for her Many Achievements," Los Angeles Sentinel (September 5, 1974): C2.
- ↑ "Southwest Students Hear Black Women Achievers," Los Angeles Sentinel (April 5, 1973): C3.
- ↑ "Artists to Open New Art Gallery Sunday," Los Angeles Sentinel (May 25, 1950): A2.
- ↑ "Leading Negroes to Talk," Daily Trojan 44(72)(February 11, 1953): 1.
- ↑ "Memorial Service Held for Artist," Los Angeles Sentinel (November 12, 1981): C15.
- ↑ "Annual Arts and Hobby Show Set," Los Angeles Sentinel (June 19, 1975): C14.
- ↑ One of L.A.'s finest, Alice T. Gafford (en). African American Registry. Retrieved on 2021-03-06.
- ↑ Karen Anne Mason, "African-American Artists of Los Angeles oral history transcript: Cecil Fergerson," UCLA Oral History Program, Online Archive of California.; in this interview Fergerson mentions Gafford a few times, declaring, "when Beulah Woodward and Alice Gafford were doing art in Los Angeles, nobody else was doing it!" (pp 514-515)
- ↑ "Life Begins at 80 for Gracious Artist," Los Angeles Sentinel (July 13, 1967): A5.: "Since she celebrated her eightieth birthday on the 15th of August last year Mrs. Gafford has produced more paintings, participated in more one-man and group shows, won more honors, and sold more paintings than in any equivalent period of her career."