John T. Biggers
American · 1924–2001 · Painter, Printmaker
John Thomas Biggers was an African-American muralist who came to prominence after the Harlem Renaissance and toward the end of World War II. Biggers created works critical of… (Wikipedia)
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John Thomas Biggers was an African-American muralist who came to prominence after the Harlem Renaissance and toward the end of World War II. Biggers created works critical of racial and economic injustice. He also served as the founding chairman of the art department at Houston's Texas State University for Negroes, a historically black college.
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Also known as John Anansa Thomas Biggers, John Biggers, John Thomas Biggers
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