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- Edmund Archer (1904–1986) was an American artist best known for his portraits of African Americans. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, to parents who were both culturally and socially prominent in that city. Having taken an early interest in painting, he took art classes continually from childhood into his adult years. His long career included periods spent in Richmond, Paris, New York, and Washington, D.C. In addition to painting, he served as an assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and an instructor at the Corcoran School of Art. His portrait style tended toward a poster-like flatness early in his career and later toward a more traditional modeled style. He painted with a high degree of realism throughout his career and rarely experimented with any degree of abstraction. Galleries and museums gave him frequent exhibitions and both individual and institutional collectors provided him with income from sales. In 1938, a critic said he was then considered to be "one of the best of the young artists in the United States". A few months later, another critic credited his success to hard work: "Edmund Minor Archer has had advantages. His success story is no Horatio Alger tale. It is a story of an earnest and deeply talented artist who has worked and studied in humility and devotion, and has early reached the top, hard step by hard step". (en)
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- Edmund Archer, Waiting for the Departure, 1932, oil on canvas, 33 x 38 inches (en)
- Edmund Archer, Buying Flowers, 1930, oil on canvas, 31 x 26 1/16 inches (en)
- Edmund Archer, Organdy Collar, 1936, oil on canvas, 19 x 16 inches (en)
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- Edmund Archer one of the younger artists who has only recently been included in the shows held at the Rehn Galleries, contributes one of the exhibition's outstanding canvasses—a portrait study of a Negro Wrestler. Mr. Archer is a Southerner and although he frequently paints Negro subjects, he does not emphasize the exotic or decorative qualities of his subject, as is too frequently case with the Northern cult of the Negro in art. His pictures carry with them the conviction of real experience, he knows his subject and the Negroes whom he paints are people and personalities. Added to this is his vigorous, almost sculptural, treatment of form. (en)
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- Edmund Archer (1904–1986) was an American artist best known for his portraits of African Americans. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, to parents who were both culturally and socially prominent in that city. Having taken an early interest in painting, he took art classes continually from childhood into his adult years. His long career included periods spent in Richmond, Paris, New York, and Washington, D.C. In addition to painting, he served as an assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and an instructor at the Corcoran School of Art. His portrait style tended toward a poster-like flatness early in his career and later toward a more traditional modeled style. He painted with a high degree of realism throughout his career and rarely experimented with any degree of abstractio (en)
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- Edmund Archer (artist) (en)
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