Edward bannister biography
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Edward Mitchell Bannister American, 1828-1901
He was the best-known landscape painter associated with Rhode Island in the late 1800s, and was the first African-American artist to win national recognition. At the Philadelphia World Centennial of 1876, Edward Bannister was the only New England artist to win a bronze medal.
Born and raised in the small seaport town of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, Bannister had a long path to becoming a fine artist and ultimately attributed his art talents to his belief in God. He was the son of a black man from Barbados and a white woman from Canada. All British provinces abolished slavery shortly after Bannister's birth, giving him the latitude to develop his interest for art, studying the major established artists, while living as a free Black. His mother encouraged his interest in art, and he made his earliest studies, in drawing and watercolor, at the age of ten. Harris Hutch introduced Bannister and his brother to the classics of music, literature, and art.
During these formative years, he spent every opportunity doodling with crayons and charcoal. By the time he was sixteen, both of his parents had passed away, prompting a more rapid maturation. After working as a cook on vessels on the Eastern seaboard, he mov
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Edward BannisterAmerican
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue inGallery 761
Bannister, born in New Brunswick, Canada, of West Indian and Canadian parentage, studied art at the Boston Museum School and the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, where he began his professional career as a landscape painter. He became an active member of that city’s art scene, as both a teacher and co-founder of the Providence Art Club. Famously, he was the first known Black artist to win a prize in the U.S.—for his pastoral landscape Under the Oaks (unlocated) at the Centennial International Exhibition, America’s first world’s fair, held in Philadelphia, in 1876. When his race was discovered, the jurors tried to rescind the award, but his fellow exhibition artists protested, and he was given the bronze medal. As one of the first painters of color with a national reputation, Bannister achieved success for his Barbizon-inspired works as well as for his more dynamic coastal scenes, such as this view of Newport, Rhode Island.
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