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LeRoy Foster (artist)

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LeRoy Foster
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ụdịekerenwoke Dezie
mba o sịNjikota Obodo Amerika Dezie
aha enyereLeRoy Dezie
aha ezinụlọ yaFoster Dezie
ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya8 Mee 1925 Dezie
Ebe ọmụmụDetroit Dezie
Ụbọchị ọnwụ ya23 Maachị 1993 Dezie
Ebe ọ nwụrụDetroit Dezie
ọrụ ọ na-arụomenkà Dezie
ebe agụmakwụkwọCass Technical High School Dezie

LeRoy Foster (1925-1993) bụ ónyé America na-ese ihe si Detroit, Michigan. A maara ya nke ọma màkà nnukwu mgbidi ọ sere na mgbidi nke ụlọ ọrụ Detroit, dị ka Life & Times of Frederick Douglass, na Detroit Public Library, na Renaissance City, na Cass Technical High School. O dekwara foto nke ndị ama ama dị ka onye na-agụ egwu na ónyé na-ahụ màkà ihe ndị ruuru mmadụ bụ Paul Robeson.

Akụkọ ndụ

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A mụrụ Foster na Detroit na úbọchị asatọ n'ọnwa Mee, 1925, ma biri ebe ahụ ndụ ya niile, ma e wezụga oge dị mkpirikpi mgbe ọ gụrụ nka na Europe na 1940s.[1]

Foster malitere ise ihe mgbe ọ dị afọ ise ma ọ bụ isii, ọ bụkwa nwa akwụkwọ nka pụrụ iche, nke ndị nkuzi na ndị ọgbọ ya matara mgbè ọ dị obérè.[2] Ọ dị mma ruo mgbe m gbara afọ iri na abụọ, ọ chetara, mgbe ahụ hel niile gbapụrụ. Ndị mmụọ ọjọọ na-achịkwa m... otu ụzọ isi chụpụ ndị mmụọ ọjọọ ahụ bụ ise ihe.[3] N'afọ 1939, mgbè ọ dị afọ iri na anọ, ọ nwetara ihe nrite mbụ na ngosi nke Pen na Palette Club, ebe ọzụzụ na oghere studio maka ndị na-ese ihe ojii nke Detroit Urban League kwadoro. Ọ bụ onye kachasị nta n'ime ndị otu ahụ.[4]

Na Pen na Palette Club, Foster mụụrụ onye na-ese ihe na Hungary bụ Francis de Erdely, onye a ma ama màkà nkà ya n'ise ihe.[5] Foster gara Cass Technical High School ma gụọ akwụkwọ na Cranbrook Academy of Art na Bloomfield Hills.[6] Site n'enyemaka nke ndị nkụzi ya na Cass, ọ natara agụmakwụkwọ iji mụọ na Society of Arts and Crafts (nke bụzi College for Creative Studies), ebe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ n'okpuru onye na-ese ihe Sarkis Sarkisian.[7] Mgbè nke ahụ gasịrị, Foster nọrọ oge na-agụ akwụkwọ na Europe, na Académie de la Grande Chaumière na Paris, na Heatherley School of Fine Art na London.[8] 79

Foster bụ nwoke na-edina nwoke ibe ya, na dị ka ndị enyi ya si kwuo, ọ na-ekwu okwu banyéré nkwenye mmekọahụ ya, n'agbanyeghị ibu iro megide nwoke idina nwoke n'oge ahụ.[9] Ọtụtụ ndị na-eto eto na-ese ihe na-echeta ya dị ka ihe nlereanya dị mma, na oriri ndị ọ tụbara na ụlọ ọrụ ya na-aga n'ọtụtụ ebe.[10] Ọzọkwa, otu n'ime ezigbo ndị enyi ya na ndị na-akwado ya bụ Ruth Ellis, ónyé ama ama Detroit LGBT activist.[11]

Ọrụ nka

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A na-akpọ Foster dị ka nke onwé ya Michelangelo, ndị enyi ya na-ewere ya dị ka ónyé isi nke ndị na-ese ihe ojii na Detroit n'oge ahụ.[12][13] A bịara mara ya gburugburu obodo ahụ dị ka ónyé na-ese ihe nke nwere nkà n'ahụ mmadụ, onye na-ise ihe osise mara mma, na, ma eleghị anya, onye a ma ama, onye na'ahụ maka ihe osise ọha na eze nke nwere nkwenye na akụkọ ihe mere eme na ọdịbendị ndị Africa America.

N'afọ 1958, Foster nyèrè aka chọta, ya na ndị na-ese ihe Charles McGee na Henri Umbaji King, Contemporary Studio na John C. Lodge Expressway. Ụlọ ihe nkiri a ma ama, akụkụ nke netwọk na-eto eto nke ndị na-ese ihe ojii, bụ echiche nke Henri King na Harold Neal, tinyere ndị na-eme ihe nkírí irí na isé ndị ọzọ, ọtụtụ n'ime ha bụ ndị gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Society of Arts and Crafts.[14] Oge ọ na-agụ akwụkwọ na Society n'okpuru Sarkis Sarkisian jikọtara ya na ọtụtụ ndị na-ese ihe ojii Detroit na-arụsi ọrụ ike bụ ndị Sarkisian duziri.[15]

Ụmụ akwụkwọ

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Ónyé Detroit na ónyé bụbu ónyé na-ese ihe osise nke Michigan Chronicle bụ Telitha Cumi Bowens bụ ónyé LeRoy Foster na-echebe.[16]

Ọnwụ

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Foster na-arịa ọrịa shuga na ahụike ya na-akawanye njọ mere ka ọ kpuru ìsì ma tụfuo ụkwụ ya. Ọ nwụrụ n'ihi ọrịa akụrụ na Machị 23, 1993, na Grace Hospital na Detroit.[17]

Ọrụ ndị a ma ama

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  • Ọ dịghị onye maara nsogbu m hụrụ (Self-Portrait). Mmanụ n'elu ákwà, n'ihe dị ka 1942. Emere ya n'ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị, mgbe Foster dị afọ iri na asaa. E rere ya na February 19, 2008 na Swann Galleries maka $ 8400.[18]
  • Osimiri Oge Ọchịchị. Ihe osise mmiri mbụ, n'ihe dị ka 1948. Ọ na-ese onyinyo nwa okorobịa na-ese ihe na enyi ya. E rere ya na February 6, 2007 na Swann Galleries maka $ 9,600.[19]
  • Frederick Douglass, mural, Detroit Public Library, 1971
  • Ihe osise maka Aloneness nke Gwendolyn Brooks, Broadside Press, 1971
  • Ihu akwụkwọ, onyinyo nke Paul Robeson maka The Peace Advocacy of Paul Robeson nke Charles H. Wright, MD, 1984[20]
  • Ndị na-agba izu na Harper's Ferry mural, nke gosipụtara John Brown, Frederick Douglass, na Harriet Tubman n'ụlọ ikpe nke Detroit's Recorders Court Judge George W. Crockett, Jr.[21]
  • Kaleidoscope, 9' x 28' mural na lobby nke Southwest Detroit Hospital, ọrụ bụ njikọ aka n'etiti ndị ọrụ ahụike nke Boulevard General Hospital na ndị njikwa nke SouthwestDetroit Hospital.[22][23]

Nchịkọta

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  • Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

N'omenala a ma ama

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N'afọ 2018, onye na-ese ihe na Detroit, onye na-emepụta ihe na onye na-asọmpi Season 1 Skin Wars Felle Kelsaw mepụtara ihe osise ọha na eze akpọrọ "LeRoy the King" iji sọpụrụ Foster.[24] Mgbidi ahụ dị 100 mita n'ogologo dị na Market on the Avenue, oghere obodo, na Livernois Avenue gafere Mahadum Detroit Mercy, na nso ebe Foster biribu.[25][26]

Ịgụ ihe ọzọ

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  • "Foster, LeRoy", Afro-American Artists: A Bio-bibliographical Dictionary, Theresa Dickerson Cederholm, 1973
  • "Foster, LeRoy", Artists In Michigan 1900-1976, A Biographical Dictionary Wayne State University Press, 1989, p, 121
  • A Resource Guide to the Visual Arts of Afro-Americans, Roslyn Walker, 1971
  • "American Negro Art in Progress" nke Lois Jones Pierre-Noel, Negro History Bulletin, October 1967.

Ihe odide ndị dị n'èzí

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Edensibia

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  1. Jaxon. LeRoy Foster, The Black Michelangelo. YouTube. Retrieved on 12 December 2018.
  2. Watson (February 26, 1986). ""Wright idea was right on the mark"". Detroit Free Press. 
  3. Calmen (March 3, 1993). ""Painter refused to bow to others"". Detroit Free Press. 
  4. Bulanda (January 21, 2014). "Bigger Than Life" (in en). Hour Detroit. Retrieved on 12 December 2018. 
  5. Bulanda (January 21, 2014). "Bigger Than Life" (in en). Hour Detroit. Retrieved on 12 December 2018. 
  6. Calmen (March 3, 1993). ""Painter refused to bow to others"". Detroit Free Press. 
  7. Michael (February 10, 2005). "LeRoy Foster: History captured on canvas". Pride Source. Retrieved on 12 December 2018. 
  8. Alex (February 2, 2008). "The mystery of LeRoy Foster: African American artist". Pride Source. Retrieved on 12 December 2018. 
  9. Jaxon. LeRoy Foster, The Black Michelangelo. YouTube. Retrieved on 12 December 2018.
  10. Calmen (March 3, 1993). ""Painter refused to bow to others"". Detroit Free Press. 
  11. Michael (February 10, 2005). "LeRoy Foster: History captured on canvas". Pride Source. Retrieved on 12 December 2018. 
  12. Calmen (March 3, 1993). ""Painter refused to bow to others"". Detroit Free Press. 
  13. Alex (February 2, 2008). "The mystery of LeRoy Foster: African American artist". Pride Source. Retrieved on 12 December 2018. 
  14. Parks (November 1962). ""A City Survey in Detroit"" (in en). Negro Digest. Retrieved on 12 December 2018. 
  15. Parks (November 1962). ""A City Survey in Detroit"" (in en). Negro Digest. Retrieved on 12 December 2018. 
  16. (1989) Ain't I A Woman: An exhibition catalogue (12 Notable Black women of Michigan). Detroit: Museum of African American History. 
  17. Calmen (March 3, 1993). ""Painter refused to bow to others"". Detroit Free Press. 
  18. Full Details for Lot 35. Catalogue.swanngalleries.com. Retrieved on 12 December 2018.
  19. Full Details for Lot 49. Catalogue.swanngalleries.com. Retrieved on 12 December 2018.
  20. Paul Robeson ARTICLES & BOOKLETS. www.cpsr.cs.uchicago.edu. Retrieved on 12 December 2018.
  21. Boyd (2004). Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press (in en). Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231503648. Retrieved on 12 December 2018. 
  22. "A Medical Masterpiece", Detroit Free Press at Newspapers.com, 10 May 1976, p. 3. Retrieved on 1 January 2019. (in en) “Includes photo of LeRoy Foster in front of the mural.”
  23. Wright (1995). The National Medical Association demands equal opportunity: nothing more, nothing less (in English). Charro Book Co.. OCLC 607128751. “Color photo plate of the mural on the title page spread.” 
  24. Fel'le: LeRoy the King mural video. YouTube.com. Retrieved on 24 December 2018.
  25. Gabriel. Market on the Avenue offers a taste of Detroit's Livernois-McNichols redevelopment (en). Detroit Metro Times. Retrieved on 23 December 2018.
  26. Market on the Avenue offers a taste of Detroit's Livernois-McNichols redevelopment – Stay connected with CC!. udmercy.edu/ (12 September 2018). Retrieved on 23 December 2018.