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ID: 500006433
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500006433
 
Record Type: Person
Bannister, Edward Mitchell (American painter, 1828-1901)

Note: Bannister was born in New Brunswick but settled in Boston and quickly became the first African-American artist to be recognized as an American regionalist painter. He moved to Providence, Rhode Island where he was one of the three founders of the Providence Arts Club. Primarily a landscape artist, his style ranged from naturalistic to expressionistic.

Names:
Bannister, Edward Mitchell (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Edward Mitchell Bannister (V,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
African American

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
daguerreotypist

Gender: male

Events:
active:   Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   Providence (Providence county, Rhode Island, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   Canada (North and Central America) (nation)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Bannister, Edward Mitchell (I)

Biographies:
(American painter, 1828-1901) ..... [BHA Preferred]
(American artist, 1833-1901) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1833-1901) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American painter, 1833-1901) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1828-1901) ..... [GRL]
(daguerreotypist, 1828-1901, active Canada (North and Central America)) ..... [GRL]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Bannister, Edward Mitchell ........ [BHA Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, WCI Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.....................................................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
.....................................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
.....................................................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.] NAFR9319948
.....................................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) nr 93019948
.....................................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
.....................................................  Witt Computer Index database
.....................................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Edward Mitchell Bannister ........ [GRL, VP]
...................................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
...................................................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
...................................................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 29

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRL, Grove Art, VP, WCI, WL-Courtauld]
....................  African American National Biography, accessed December 13, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bannister, Edward Mitchell; painter; born c.1826 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada; established himself as a full-time artist (1857); was active in Boston's African American arts community and in the abolitionist movement; served as an officer of the Union Progressive Society and the Colored Citizens of Boston; was a delegate to the New England Colored Citizens Convention (1859 and 1865); traveled to New York to study photography in order to enter into the daguerreotype business (1862); advertised his services as a daguerreotypist (1863 and 1864); took life-drawing classes at the Lowell Institute (1863-1865); came to national attention when his painting Under the Oaks was awarded a first-prize medal at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia (1876); served on the first board of the new Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and was a founding member of the Providence Art Club (1880); memorial exhibition of his work, including 101 paintings, was mounted at the Providence Art Club (
....................  Cederholm, Afro-American artists (1973)
....................  Cederholm, T.D. Afro-American artists, 1973: p. 15 (Bannister, Edward Mitchell; painter; b. St. Andrews (New Brunswick) 1828, d. Providence (R.I.) 1901)
....................  Driskell, D. Two cent. of black American art, 1976: p. 126 (Bannister, Edward Mitchell; b. 1828, d. 1901)
....................  Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1828-1901, 1992: p. 67 (Bannister, Edward Mitchell; b. ca. 1826-27) p. 74 (d. 1/9/1901)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr93019948
....................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
....................  Groce and Wallace, Artists in America (1957)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 21 January 2005
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.] NAFR9319948
....................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 29-36; 29
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr93019948
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93019948
....................  RLIN data base, 06/01/93 (hdg.: Bannister, Edward Mitchell, 1828-1901; usage: Edward Mitchell Bannister)
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Two centuries of Black American art (1976)
....................  Who was who in Amer. art, 1985: p. 32 (Bannister, Edward M.; landscape painter; b. 1833, d. 1901)
....................  Witt Computer Index database
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 29
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