About: Franco the Great     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbo:Person, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FFranco_the_Great

Franco the Great (born Frankin Gaskin, 1928) is a street artist in Manhattan, New York. He was born and raised in Panama and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Franco the Great is also referred to as the "Harlem Picasso". He earned notoriety by painting storefront security gates in West Harlem neighbourhoods. Original pieces of Franco's are found today on 125th Street, surrounding the Apollo Theater (between Frederick Douglass Blvd. and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd). Franco's specialized murals on security gates are only viewable when the gates of the stores are closed.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Franco the Great (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Franco the Great (born Frankin Gaskin, 1928) is a street artist in Manhattan, New York. He was born and raised in Panama and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Franco the Great is also referred to as the "Harlem Picasso". He earned notoriety by painting storefront security gates in West Harlem neighbourhoods. Original pieces of Franco's are found today on 125th Street, surrounding the Apollo Theater (between Frederick Douglass Blvd. and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd). Franco's specialized murals on security gates are only viewable when the gates of the stores are closed. (en)
foaf:homepage
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
has abstract
  • Franco the Great (born Frankin Gaskin, 1928) is a street artist in Manhattan, New York. He was born and raised in Panama and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Franco the Great is also referred to as the "Harlem Picasso". He earned notoriety by painting storefront security gates in West Harlem neighbourhoods. Original pieces of Franco's are found today on 125th Street, surrounding the Apollo Theater (between Frederick Douglass Blvd. and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd). Franco's specialized murals on security gates are only viewable when the gates of the stores are closed. According to the New York Daily Times, Franco's murals have contributed to making Harlem a tourist destination. His work can also be found inside businesses across United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Canada, Spain, Brazil, the Caribbean Islands, Senegal, and several other African countries. (en)
gold:hypernym
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is Wikipage redirect of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 62 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software