9.3 Teacher Resource—List of Artists and Musicians Page 1 of 1

Artist / Dates / Medium
Charles Alston / 1907–1977 / Painter/Sculptor
Henry Bannarn / 1910–1965 / Painter
Richmond Barthe / 1901–1989 / Sculptor
Romare Beardon / 1911–1988 / Painter
Allan Rohan Crite / 1910–2007 / Painter
Beauford Delaney / 1901–1979 / Painter
Aaron Douglas / 1899–1979 / Painter
Meta Warrick Fuller / 1877–1968 / Sculptor
Palmer Hayden / 1890–1973 / Painter
Sargent Claude Johnson / 1887–1967 / Sculptor
William H. Johnson / 1901–1970 / Painter
Lois Mailou Jones / 1905–1998 / Painter
Jacob Lawrence / 1917–2000 / Painter
Norman Lewis / 1920–1979 / Painter
Archibald Motley / 1891–1981 / Painter
Augusta Savage / 1892–1961 / Sculptor
Dox Thrash / 1892–1965 / Printmaker
James Van Der Zee / 1886–1983 / Photographer
Musician / Dates / Instrument
Marian Anderson / 1897–1993 / Vocalist
Louis Armstrong / 1901–1971 / Trumpet (Vocalist)
Josephine Baker / 1906–1975 / Vocalist
Count Basie / 1904–1984 / Pianist (Bandleader)
Cab Calloway / 1907–1994 / Vocalist (Bandleader)
Edward Kennedy Ellington / 1889–1974 / Pianist (Bandleader)
Ella Fitzgerald / 1917–1996 / Vocalist
Dizzy Gillespie / 1917–1993 / Trumpet
Billie Holiday / 1915–1959 / Vocalist
Lena Horne / 1917–2010 / Vocalist
Thelonious Monk / 1917–1982 / Pianist
Jelly Roll Morton / 1890–1941 / Pianist (Bandleader)
Ma Rainey / 1882 (or 1886)–1939 / Vocalist
Bessie Smith / 1882 (or 1894)–1937 / Vocalist
Billy Strayhorn / 1915–1967 / Pianist
Fats Waller / 1904–1943 / Pianist
Ethel Waters / 1896–1977 / Vocalist

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