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Robert Colescott was born in Oakland, California on August 26, 1925. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949, Colescott moved to Paris, where he studied under Fernand Léger for a year. He moved back to California and obtained a Master of Arts degree from UC Berkeley in 1951. After teaching and making art in Seattle for a few years, he became an assistant professor at Portland State College from 1957 to 1964.
In 1963 Colescott applied to be an artist in residence at the American Research Center in Cairo for a year, and upon his acceptance he moved with his family - his wife Sally Marie Dennett and their newborn son - to Egypt in 1964. His stay there is understood to have been a transformative experience, one in which Colescott began to embrace his racial identity and incorporate it into his artistic practice. “His time in Egypt alters not only his self-perspective as a Black man but also his view of the history of the art with which he engages. As he will…
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Robert Colescott was born in Oakland, California on August 26, 1925. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949, Colescott moved to Paris, where he studied under Fernand Léger for a year. He moved back to California and obtained a Master of Arts degree from UC Berkeley in 1951. After teaching and making art in Seattle for a few years, he became an assistant professor at Portland State College from 1957 to 1964.
In 1963 Colescott applied to be an artist in residence at the American Research Center in Cairo for a year, and upon his acceptance he moved with his family - his wife Sally Marie Dennett and their newborn son - to Egypt in 1964. His stay there is understood to have been a transformative experience, one in which Colescott began to embrace his racial identity and incorporate it into his artistic practice. “His time in Egypt alters not only his self-perspective as a Black man but also his view of the history of the art with which he engages. As he will…
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