Hand Signed Varnette P Honeywood 1986 Titled “Courting”from Samuels Gallery Oakland CA

Hand Signed Varnette P Honeywood 1986 Titled “Courting”from Samuels Gallery Oakland CA -from Samuels Gallery, Oakland California 22” x 20”,

"About Varnette Honeywood: Early years
Honeywood was born on December 27, 1950, in Los Angeles. Her parents, Stepney and Lovie Honeywood, were elementary school teachers who had come to California from Louisiana and Mississippi.[3] Honeywood earned her undergraduate degree in Art in 1972 from Spelman College in Atlanta, the first historically black female school of higher education in the United States. (She would exhibit there in 1987.)[4] She earned her master's degree from the University of Southern California in 1974, where she majored in education.[2]

Career beginnings[edit]
As part of a community outreach program conducted by USC, Honeywood used her educational training to teach multicultural arts and crafts programs to minority children in the public schools.[3] 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.[3] She and her sister Stephanie established the greeting-card company Black Lifestyles with cards showing her brightly colored portraits depicting the daily life of African Americans, making it the first such company specializing in black themes."

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