John Thomas Biggers (April 13, 1924 – January 25, 2001) [1] 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.

Mar 31, 2011 · Twentieth century artist John Thomas Biggers was an educator, painter and muralist. His travels in Africa in the 1950s influenced the depiction of social and cultural themes in his work. John Thomas Biggers was born in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1924.

John Biggers believed “that self-dignity and racial pride could be consciously approached through art," especially his own social realist murals and late career symbolic paintings.

Jun 6, 2008 · John Thomas Biggers, African-American artist and educator, was born at Gastonia, North Carolina, on April 13, 1924, to Cora and Paul Biggers. His father—part Anglo, African American, and Cherokee—made his career as a teacher and principal but also worked as a shoemaker and served as a Baptist minister.

John T. Biggers was a muralist, educator, and Penn State alumnus who dedicated his work to establishing a sense of African American identity and pride through art. His murals, portraying rural Black laborers, can be seen at Penn State in the …

May 17, 2018 · As a painter, muralist, illustrator, and sculptor, John Biggers has made innumerable contributions to American art and culture. In the 1950s he became one of the first African-American artists to travel to Africa, and to integrate African …

May 1, 2024 · John Biggers left behind an influential canon of artworks. What might be his most striking attribute is his compassion for women that are evoked through works he created in the 1940s like Mother and Child and The Cradle, as well as his most well-known mural The Contribution of Negro Women in American Life and Education (1953) that seemed to ...

John Thomas Biggers (April 13, 1924 – January 25, 2001) 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.

Feb 17, 2017 · John Biggers’ story begins in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1924. Growing up as a black child during a racially segregated time in the southern United States deeply influenced his perspective of the world.

Dr. John Thomas Biggers is widely acclaimed for his complex, symbolic murals based on African American and African cultural themes. Few artists have been outstanding practicing artists and effective educators, yet Biggers successfully maintained his dual careers until his 1983 retirement.