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| Charles Eugene Shannon
American 1914 -1995
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Montgomery, AL
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Cleveland School of Art
Emory University
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Alabama Arts
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, NYC
Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, 1939
Cleveland School of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
City Art Museum of St. Louis
Carnegie Institute
Art Institute of Chicago
Whitney Museum of American Art
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| Specialty: |
Painter
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| Style/School: |
African-American
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| Artist Profile |
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Montgomery, AL |
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Born in Montgomery, Alabama, he became a painter of southern black genre in a style of elongated, rhythmic figures, and sombre tones. He also earned a lasting reputation as the man who discovered, exhibited, and documented the folk artist, Bill Traylor.
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