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Edward Loper Sr

Edward L Loper, Sr. (1916 - 2011) was active/lived in Delaware.  Edward Loper Sr is known for Town-landscape, still life and genre painting, teaching.

Biography photo for Edward L Loper, Sr.
The following is from Kaye-Ann Marsh:

Edward L Loper Sr. is an artist with over seventy-years of experience. He was born in 1916. He has not only seen two world wars but has lived through segregation and discrimination, all the things that many contemporary artists depict. He has met, taught and inspired many of these artists.

Below is information from his wife Janet Loper:

Edward L. Loper Sr. was born on the East Side of Wilmington on April 7, 1916. He is basically a self taught painter. He is represented in major permanent collections in the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, Howard University, the Museum of African American Art in Tampa, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Clark-Atlanta University collection of African American Art, among others.

Loper was associated with the WPA Art Project from 1936-1941. In 1947 he started teaching full-time and continues to do so. He has private classes in   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3427 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Edward Loper Sr


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt Subject
  • Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Still Life
Art School
  • Barnes Foundation School/University of Arts, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Genre Specialty
  • Self Taught, Autodidact
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
  • Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Museum
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York

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