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Dean Lamont Mitchell

Dean Lamont Mitchell (Born 1957) is active/lives in Missouri, New Mexico.  Dean Mitchell is known for Regional landscape, black figure and genre painting.

An award-winning painter of figures depicting black middle and lower class people and landscapes from his southern background and other personal experiences, Dean Mitchell is inspired by grizzled laborers, time-worn elderly faces, and persons like himself who have lived in a segregated environment. His career hit an upswing 2002 when art critic Michael Kimmelman wrote in The New York Times that Mitchell was 'a virtual modern-day Vermeer'.

Dean Mitchell was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but grew up in Quincy, Florida, a tobacco growing town. His mother, Hazel, was unmarried and worked as a dietician, and he was basically raised by his grandmother who encouraged his art talent and who bought him paints from the time he was a child. Although his mother was hesitant about supporting his talent at first, she has become "his biggest fan". (Targos)

He got his formal art training at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio, and then worked as an illustrator in Kan   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7329 characters.]  Artist bio

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