African-American Artist: Varnette Honeywood (1950 - 2010)
Title: «Gossip in the Sanctuary» Year: 1982 Medium: Lithograph Hand Signed: Lower right, titled and dated in pencil Image Size: 17.5 X 23 inches Frame Size: 26.5 X 31 inches - currently being reframed Varnette Patricia Honeywood (December 27.1950 – September 12.2010) was an American painter, writer, and businesswoman whose paintings and collages depicting African American life hung on walls in interior settings for The Cosby Show after Camille and Bill Cosby had seen her art and started collecting some of her works. Her paintings also appeared on television on the Cosby Show spin-off a Different World, as well as on the American tv series Amen and 227. Her work, influenced by such artists as Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence showed black Americans in everyday life, in family and social settings. [2] The time she spent visiting relatives in the South during her childhood, her college experience at Spelman and a 1977 trip to Nigeria all provided themes for her paintings. In 1990, Honeywoodbegan working extensively with monoprinting. She used a solvent to obtain a skin quality in her characters analogous to African scarification, an African cultural tradition that is similar to tattooing. Metal framed with glass. Can be shipped with or without frame. Feel free to contact me for more photographs.
African american artist varnette honeywood signed lithograph - rare
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