Brand: James L. Wells

Artist Overview

• Date of Birth and death

  November 2, 1902 – January 20, 1993

• Nationality

  African American

• Style

  Graphic artist, print-maker, and painter associated with the Harlem Renaissance. He was an influential art professor at Howard University from 1929 to 1968 and is considered a pioneer in modern art education.

• Notable work

  Harmon Foundation, gold medal, Flight into Egypt, 1931

  Harmon Foundation, bronze medal for most representative work in black and white, “1933 Exhibition of the Work of Negro Artists” group exhibition, 1933

  Smithsonian Institution, first prize, Religious Art Exhibition, 1958