inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame

Showing the single result

• 

  SOLD

  Boscoe Holder – Portrait of Arthur Mitchell

  
  Notice: Function post was called incorrectly. Product properties should not be accessed directly. Backtrace: require('wp-blog-header.php'), require_once('wp-includes/template-loader.php'), include('/plugins/woocommerce/templates/taxonomy-product-tag.php'), wc_get_template, include('/plugins/woocommerce/templates/archive-product.php'), wc_get_template_part, load_template, require('/themes/jupiterx/lib/templates/woocommerce/content-product.php'), do_action('woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item'), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, jupiterx_wc_template_loop_product_title_group, do_action('woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title'), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title_short_description, WC_Abstract_Legacy_Product->__get, wc_doing_it_wrong Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.0.) in /home/customer/www/101artgallery.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 5905
  

  
  Notice: Function post was called incorrectly. Product properties should not be accessed directly. Backtrace: require('wp-blog-header.php'), require_once('wp-includes/template-loader.php'), include('/plugins/woocommerce/templates/taxonomy-product-tag.php'), wc_get_template, include('/plugins/woocommerce/templates/archive-product.php'), wc_get_template_part, load_template, require('/themes/jupiterx/lib/templates/woocommerce/content-product.php'), do_action('woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item'), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, jupiterx_wc_template_loop_product_title_group, do_action('woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title'), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title_short_description, WC_Abstract_Legacy_Product->__get, wc_doing_it_wrong Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.0.) in /home/customer/www/101artgallery.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 5905
  

  Boscoe Holder

  (1921 – 2007)

  Portrait of Arthur Mitchell

  1973

  oil on canvas

  40 x 30″

  signed Boscoe Holder and dated 73 (yr)

  Arthur Mitchell was an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and founder and director of ballet companies. In 1955, he was the first African-American dancer with the New York City Ballet, where he was promoted to principal dancer the following year and danced in major roles until 1966. He then founded ballet companies in Spoleto, Washington, D.C., and Brazil. In 1969, he founded a training school and the first African-American classical ballet company, Dance Theatre of Harlem. Among other awards, Mitchell was recognized as a MacArthur Fellow, inducted into the National Museum of Dance’s Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame, and received the United States National Medal of Arts and a Fletcher Foundation fellowship.