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Ronald Joseph

Ronald Joseph (1910 - 1992) was active/lived in New York / Belgium.  Ronald Joseph is known for Abstract painting, printmaking and murals.

Ronald Joseph, painter, printmaker, muralist, was born in 1910 on St. Kitts, in the West Indies. With the benefit of scholarships he was educated in New York at the Ethical Culture School, Fieldston School and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. In the company of Robert Blackburn, he studied printmaking with Riva Helfond at the Harlem Arts Center where he also served as a teacher.

He was a participant in the mural section of the WPA and a representative of the Harlem Artists' Guild to the New York Worlds Fair (1939-1940).

Joseph enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the declaration of World War II and was posted as a member of the ground crew at Tuskegee, Alabama, and in Michigan. After the war he was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship, permitting him to travel and live in Peru for two years. Joseph used the G.l. bill to study in Paris at the Grande Chaumière. He resides in Brussels where he continues to work as a painter.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Ronald Joseph


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked After 1900
  • South America
Art Association
  • Harlem Artists' Guild
Art Teacher
  • Riva Helfond
Art School
  • Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Harlem Community Art Center
  • Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Julius Rosenwald Foundation Grant
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Abstraction Specialty
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
  • Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • New York World's Fair, 1939-1940
Exhibition of Special Group
  • American Negro Exposition, Chicago 1940

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