Timeline

1909

Born: in New York, NY

1933 - 1935

Studied at Columbia University and at The John Reed Club Art School, New York, NY
Accepted into the Federal Art Program of the Works Progress Administration, (WPA)

1933

Began painting at Augusta Savage’s Uptown Art Laboratory, New York, NY

1934

Became a member of the famed 306 Group, an organization of artists and writers that met at the studio of Charles Alston

1935 - 1937

Taught at P.S.139 and the Harlem community Art Center in New York, NY

1935

Founding member of the Harlem Artists Guild

1952

Received honorable mention in the 10th Annual American Drawing, Virginia Museum, Norfolk, VA

1963

Founding member of Spiral, a group of African-American Artsts that included Charles Alston, Romare Bearden and Hale Woodruff

1969

Founded the Cinque Gallery in New York, NY along with Bearden and Ernest Crichlow

1972 - 1979

Taught at The Art Students League, New York, NY

1972

Awarded Mark Rothko Foundation grant and an Individual Artists’ Fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts

1975

Awarded a fellowship from the John Solomon Guggenheim Memorial

1979

Died: in New York, NY