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Avel de Knight (1923-1995) was an African-American artist, art educator, and art critic. His works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the University of Richmond Museums.




Early life and education


De Knight was born in New York. His birth year has been given as 1921, 1923, 1925, 1931, and 1933. His parents immigrated to the United States from Barbados and Puerto Rico. He is the younger brother of René DeKnight.
De Knight studied art at the Pratt Institute from 1941-1942. He joined the Army and served in a segregated unit until the end of World War II. In 1946, he moved to Paris where he used the G.I. Bill to attend the École des Beaux-Arts, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and the Académie Julian.




Career


De Knight painted watercolors and often practiced the gouache painting technique.
He taught at the Art Students League of New York and the National Academy School of Fine Arts.




Collections


Metropolitan Museum of Art
Walker Art Center
University of Richmond
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Chrysler Museum of Art
Lehigh University Art Galleries




Exhibitions


Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks, Delaware Art Museum 2021




References






See also


Herbert Gentry
Romare Bearden

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Avel de Knight
• Ellen Powell Tiberino
• René DeKnight
• Jacob Lawrence
• Raymond Saunders (artist)
• Barbara Bullock
• Herbert Gentry
• Columbus P. Knox
• Louis B. Sloan
• Ralph Allen (painter, born 1952)