Dox Thrash was a prolific printmaker who was born on this day in 1893 and settled in Philadelphia in
Dox Thrash was a prolific printmaker who was born on this day in 1893 and settled in Philadelphia in the late 1920s. In 1937, at the height of the Great Depression, he became the first Black artist to work for the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia, a branch of the Works Progress Administration, a federal relief program designed to employ thousands of artists and share their work with the public. Learn more about the artist in the recently digitized publication “Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered.”“Monday Morning Wash,” around 1938–39, by Dox Thrash -- source link
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