Leslie M. Rogers – Defender Cartoonist (1918-?)
(21 years old in 1919 has been with Defender for 18 months)
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Chicago Black Renaissance Artists
 
William Edouard Scott – painted impressionist landscapes, portraits, murals (depicting black achievement on Tanner art Gallery walls – Chicago Coliseum – American Negro Exposition 1940
 
Charles White – mural division of Illinois Federal Art Project, graphic artist
 
Bernard Goss – (1st husband of Margaret Burroughs, studied at AIC) WPA easel division of Illinois Art Project.
 
Joseph Kersey –
 
Gearoge Neal –
 
 
Archibald John Motley, Jr – controversial, paintings of jazz culture and celebration of black sensuality. Vitality of urban black life: black social activities in 1920’s-1930’s,
 
Eldzier Cortor – among 1st AA artists use beauty of black women as major theme. SAIC graduate and founder of the South Side Community Art Center
 
James Lesesne Wells – black industry worker
 
Paul Robeson - ?
 
John Woodrow Wilson
 
Civil Rights Movement
 
Benny Andrews – SAIC painter, printmaker, collages (GI bill) Figure painter, expressionist: suffering, injustice including holocaust, NA forced migration, Hurricane Katrina
 
Jacob Lawerence
 
Moneta Sleet Jr.
 
Gordon Parks – (Prominance 40’s-70’s) Photographer and Filmmaker – photo essays in Life. Director of Shaft
 
Herbert Randall JR.
 
Jeff Donaldson
 
Jae Jarrell
 
Barkley L. Hendricks
 
Edward Kienholz
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