Wilmer angier jennings biography

  • Wilmer Angier Jennings (1910–1990) was an.
  • Wilmer Angier Jennings was an African-American printmaker, painter, and jeweler.
  • Printmaker, artist, and jeweler, Wilmer Jennings moved to Providence from Atlanta in 1935.

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    Wilmer Angier Jennings was an African-American printmaker, painter, and jeweler. He was hired by the Rhode Island WPA to create wood-engraved prints that explored themes of economic and social hardships experienced by African-Americans. Jennings’ work also included Southern themes inspired by oral folklore traditions. During his later years, Jennings studied jewelry design, which prompted him to develop new methods of jewelry manufacturing.

    Artistic career

    Education

    While attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, Jennings studied under the artist Hale Woodruff who introduced him to the principles of modernism. Under the Graphic Arts Division of the WPA in 1934, they worked together on two notable murals that reflected on the African-American experience: The Negro in Modern American Life: Agriculture and Rural Life, Literature, Music and Art and the second, titled The Dream. The first of the two was displayed in the David T. Howard School in Atlanta, Georgia while

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    Still Life with Fetish

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    Title:Still Life with Fetish

    Artist:Wilmer Angier Jennings (American, 1910–1990)

    Date:1937

    Medium:Wood engraving

    Dimensions:15 7/8 in. × 11 in. (40.3 × 28 cm)

    Classification:Prints

    Credit Line:Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 1999

    Object Number:1999.529.74

    Inscription: Signed and inscribed (lower left, in graphite): 'Still Life'; (lower center, in graphite): 19; (lower right, in graphite): WilmEr JEnnings

    [Kenkeleba House, New York, until 1992; sold on April 1, 1992 to Williams]; Reba and Dave Williams, New York (1992–99; their gift to MMA)

    stadsdel i new york. Lehman College Art galleri of The City University of New York. "Black Printmakers and the W.P.A.," February 23–June 6, 1989, unnumbered katt. (p. 32; dated 1938, lent artighet Kenkeleba Gallery) [possibly this edition].

    Newark Museum, held jointly at the Equitable galleri, New York. "Alone in a Crowd: Print

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    Wilmer Angier Jennings

    American printmaker, painter, and jeweler

    Wilmer Angier Jennings

    BornNovember 13, 1910

    Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

    DiedJune 25, 1990(1990-06-25) (aged 79)

    Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.

    Other namesWilmer Jennings
    Alma materMorehouse College,
    Rhode Island School of Design,
    University of Rhode Island
    Known forPrintmaker, painter, jeweler

    Wilmer Angier Jennings (1910–1990) was an African-American printmaker, painter, and jeweler. He was hired by the Rhode Island WPA to create wood-engraved prints that explored themes of economic and social hardships experienced by African-Americans.[1] Jennings' work also included Southern themes inspired by oral folklore traditions. During his later years, Jennings studied jewelry design, which prompted him to develop new methods of jewelry manufacturing.[2]

    Early life, Georgia and the WPA

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    Wilmer Angier Jennings was born on November 13, 19

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