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Charles Alston
?–1977
WA-00021983
PaintingHarlem Renaissance
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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New Horizons in American Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1936
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- Birth yearDuplicate Merge + Artsy· 85%✓
- NationalityArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
- Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
- Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
- LocationArtsy· 85%
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- WikidataTier 1 · Institutional85%
About
Why this artist matters now
Charles Alston was an African American painter, sculptor, and muralist whose practice spanned abstraction, figuration, and public art across the mid-twentieth century. Working primarily in oil, bronze, and large-scale mural formats, he created works addressing themes of identity, labor, and community. Active in New York from the 1930s onward, Alston contributed significantly to the visual culture of the Harlem Renaissance and its postwar evolution. His sculptures and paintings demonstrate a formal vocabulary that moved fluidly between modernist abstraction and representational subjects rooted in African American experience.
Source: Wikidata · Trust score: 85% · Updated 12d ago
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Harlem Renaissance
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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