Samella Lewis

Samella Sanders Lewis (born February 27, 1924, in New Orleans) is an African-American artist (primarily a printmaker and painter), author, art historian and former educator. Widely exhibited and collected as an artist herself, she is nevertheless perhaps even better known as a historian, critic, and collector of art, especially African-American art. Lewis has completed four degrees, five films, seven books, and a substantial body of artworks which have received great critical respect. Her artistic and wonderful mind showed itself at the early age of four, when she started drawing and painting. She pursued an art degree starting off at Dillard University in 1941, but left Dillard for Hampton Institute in Virginia, earning her master's degree in 1947. She earned her B.A. degree at Hampton University, then earned her master and doctorate in fine arts and art history at the Ohio State University.

Later she became chair of fine Arts Department at Florida A&M University in 1952; she was a professor at the State University of New York and at Scripps College in Claremont, California. She is the founder of the International Review of African American Art in 1975, also the Museum of African American Arts in 1976.

In the 1960s–1970s her work reflected humanity and freedom. She produced lithographs, linocuts, and serigraphs.

She is an NAACP member, and a collector of art, her collection including African, Chinese, Asian, South American and other art.

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