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.
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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