BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " DAVID C. DRISKELL " IS A SCHOLAR IN THE FIELD OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AND AN ARTIST : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

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David C. Driskell

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Woman with Flowers by David Driskell, 1972

David C. Driskell (born June 7, 1931) is a scholar in the field of African-American art and an artist. Driskell is an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Driskell holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Catholic University and nine Honorary Doctoral degrees.^[1] In 2000, Driskell was honored by President Bill Clinton as one of 12 recipients of the National Humanities Medal. ^[1] A publication, David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar by Julie L. McGee, detailing Driskell's life and work, was published in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Driskell is represented by DC Moore Gallery. His first exhibition at the gallery was held in October 2006.^[2]

Publications by Driskell

• Amistad II: Afro-American Art, (editor), Nashville: Fisk University, 1975.
• Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976. ISBN 0-87587-070-8
• The Afro-American Collection, Fisk University, with Earl J. Hooks, Nashville: Fisk University, 1976.
• David Driskell: a survey: Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, October 21-December 5, 1980, compiled and edited by Edith A. Tonelli, College Park, MD: University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1980.
• Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America, introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell; essays by David Driskell, David Levering Lewis, and Deborah Willis Ryan, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1987. ISBN 0-8109-1099-3
• Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African descent, curators, Henry J. Drewal and David C. Driskell, Los Angeles: California Afro-American Museum, 1989.
• African American Visual Aesthetics: a Postmodernist View, (editor) Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. ISBN 1-56098-605-0
• The Other Side of Color: African American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby, Jr., San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2001. ISBN 0-7649-1455-3
• David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar, by Julie L. McGee, San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2006. ISBN 0-7649-3747-2

Publications about Driskell

• Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950, San Francisco: The Art Museum Association of America, 1985. ISBN 0-930295-03-X
• Contemporary Visual Expressions: the Art of Sam Gilliam, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Keith Morrison, William T. Williams, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. ISBN 0-87474-385-0
• Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell, by Adrienne L. Childs, San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7649-4204-4