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Joe Selby

Joe (Joseph) Selby (1893 - 1960) was active/lived in Florida.  Joe Selby is known for Marine-ship portrait, genre and landscape painting.

Known for his ship portrait paintings, Joe Selby was born in Mobile, Alabama, and settled in Miami, Florida.  He was an African-American painter whose subjects were the ships and yachts that docked at the Miami city pier between 1921 and 1959.

As a twelve-year old deck hand, he had lost a leg in a shipboard accident, but during the 1930s, his love of marine activity led him to join a steamer out of Mobile.

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Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art   ...  [Displaying 515 of 1583 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Joe Selby available:    William Stubbs,  Thomas (TW) Willis,  Xanthus Russell Smith,  William Edward Norton,  Arthur Diehl,  James Bonnar,  C Myron Clark,  Frederic Cozzens,  Reynolds Beal,  James Sword,  William Posey Silva,  John Cuthbert Hare,  Adolf Arthur Dehn,  Frank Vining Smith,  Charles Herbert Woodbury,  Charles Paul Gruppe,  Joseph Enneking,  Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen,  Emile Albert Gruppe,  Paul Strisik,  Warren Sheppard,  Henry Martin Gasser,  Jane Peterson,  Pierre Jules (PJ) Mene



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Joe Selby


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Genre Specialty
  • Marine Specialty
  • Miniature Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
  • Black, African-American and/or Caribbean

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