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William Ellsworth Artis

William Ellsworth Artis (1914 - 1977) was active/lived in Nebraska, Minnesota.  William Artis is known for Ceramics, terra cotta pottery, portrait and elongated figure sculpture, teaching.

Born in Washington, North Carolina, William Artis became a prominent Black-American ceramist, sculptor and teacher.  He was best known for a series of terra cotta* and stoneware* heads of black youths, which he created in the 1930s and 1940s such as Head of a Girl, 1933, exhibited at the Harmon Foundation*, and Weariness, 1934, exhibited at the Salon of America* at Radio City Music Hall.  Of these types of work, it was written that they are Art Deco in style and "typically have an introverted impassivity and a spiritual appeal." (James, 23)

In 1933, Artis studied at the Art Students League* in New York City, where he won the Harmon Foundation Prize in 1933. He then served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and after the war, studied on the G.I. Bill at Syracuse University with Ivan Mestrovic, Yugoslavian expatriate sculptor.  Artis earned a B.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1950 and an M.F.A. in 1951, and was a student at the Harlem Communi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6556 characters.]  Artist bio

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