Jackson, Mississippi visual artist/art historian, Pan-Africanist, Harold S. Dorsey graduated from Arkansas AM&N College (now The University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff in 1960 and studied there under Art Professor John Howard. Dorsey taught art at Prairie View A&M University for 20 years before retiring in 2008.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
"Bad Nigger With a Toothpick and a Knife", 1971
Painted in 1971 in the Jeff Donaldson School of Art, while I was a student at Northwestern University.
Bust of Lawrence Davis, Sr. President of Arkansas AM &N College
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| Bronze bust of President of Lawrence "Prexy" Davis, Sr. |
Sketch of the Lovely, Petite Poet Warrior Sonia Sanchez
Originally we met in 1973 at the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival sponsored at Jackson State University by Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander. I got her to sign the sketch Saturday, April 9, 2011 after Ms. Sanchez's morning address at the Margaret Walker Center Creative Arts Festival.
"The Crap Game"
I followed some boys out into the woods while they were shooting craps and drew them, the setting of the sketch is my father's motel in Tougaloo, Mississippi. This painting won me a full scholarship to the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff. "Crap Game" was my first painting.
"The Crap Game"
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| By Harold S. Dorsey |
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Bust of Margaret Walker Alexander
Terra Cotta bust with bronze patina
Slightly stylized in the Ife/Benin style of West African Niger Valley civilization. Commissioned for the Margaret Walker Day at Jackson State University and featured in EBONY magazine.
"Kirksey's Legacy": The First 17 Post-Reconstruction State Legislators in Mississippi
This portable mural (13' x 4'), medium is acrylics, of the first 17 African Americans to serve as State Legislators in Mississippi was commissioned by Dr. Ally C. Mack.
Monday, January 3, 2011
"Black Boy"
The artist's son, Harold Dorsey, Jr. poses with Dorsey's terra cotta sculpture entitled "Black Boy" inspired by Richard Wright's (featured in portrait) book of the same name. The sculpture and portrait of Richard Wright are housed in the Smith-Robertson Museum in Jackson, Mississippi.
Harold S. Dorsey at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (1971-1972)
Harold S. Dorsey received his Masters of Fine Arts Degree while on a Ford Foundation Fellowship at Northwestern University.
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