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Charles Henry Alston

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Charles Henry Alston (1907 - 1977) was active/lived in New York, North Carolina.  Charles Alston is known for Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals.

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Charles Alston was a long-time instructor at the Art Students League of New York and was known for his grasp of abstract design and his ability to express in his artwork the social forces that where shaping America at that time. His mediums were painting, sculpture, and murals, and his mural titled Man on the Threshold of Space, is at the Harriet Tubman School and another, Emerging Man, is at the Harlem Hospital, both in New York.

Charles Alston earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Columbia, University, and in 1930, received the Arthur Wesley Dow Fellowship.  From 1950, he began several decades of teaching at the Art Students League and was also a member of the National Society of Mural Painters.  In 1958, he was a U.S. representative to the Brussels Worlds Fair and in 1967 was appointed to the Advisory Board of the National Council of the Arts.

He exhibited at the John Heller Gallery in New York and in 1969 had a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11643 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

.  askART lists Charles Henry Alston in 2 of its research Essays. Charles Henry Alston has 21 artist signature examples available in our database.

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Facts about Charles Henry Alston

   Publications  Book References:  36
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Charles Henry Alston
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques Gallery Watch March 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
ARTnews The Rise of African American Art September 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
American Art Review Art of the Harlem Renaissance April 1998 Powell, Richard J Yes
ARTnews Charles H Alston November 1994 AN editors No
36 Book References for Charles Henry Alston
Year Author Title Pages Color
2009 Herskovic, Marika American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless 252 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2003 Lewis, Samella African American Art and Artists 340 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1998 Taha, Halima Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas 270 Yes
1997 Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface) St. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 625 No
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1994 San Antonio Museum of Art African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 Yes
1993 Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present 542 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 McElroy, Guy C (others) African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection 125 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1978 Berman, Greta Mural Painting in New York City: Under the WPA Federal Art Project 300 No
1978 Lewis, Samella Art: African American 246 Yes
1977 Grigsby, Eugene Jr. Art & Ethnics Background for Teaching Youth in a Pluralistic Society 147 No
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward) The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 284 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1973 Fine, Elsa Honig The Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity 310 Yes
1971 Locke, Alain The Negro in Art 224 No
1970 Alston, Charles Henry; Romare Bearden; Allan Rohan Crite, et all Social Studies: The Art of Black America, Part One 0 Yes
1963 International Assoc. of Art Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ... 119 No
1960 Dover, Cedric American Negro Art 186 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1943 Porter, James A Modern Negro Art 272 No
1935 Harmon Foundation Negro Artists: An Illustrated Review of Their Achievements
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
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