William Joshua Blackmon

William Joshua Blackmon

mmádu

ụdịekere	nwoke
mba o sị	Njikota Obodo Amerika
aha enyere	William
ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya	20 Eprel 1921
Ebe ọmụmụ	Albion
Ụbọchị ọnwụ ya	8 Febụwarị 2010
Ebe ọ nwụrụ	Detroit
ọrụ ọ na-arụ	onye ese
Ebe obibi	Milwaukee
Nwere ọrụ na mkpokọta	Smithsonian American Art Museum
ikike nwebiisinka dị ka onye okike	Ọrụ nwebiisinka chekwara
omenkà faịlụ na	Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library

Bold text'''William Joshua Blackmon (ubochí irí abụọ n'ọnwa Eprel 1921 rụo ụbọchị asatọ n'ọnwa Febụwarị 2010), nke a makwaara dị ka onye amụma Blackmon, bụ ónyé America na-ekwusa ozi ọma n'okporo ámá na onye a ma ama na Milwaukee. Jeffrey R. Hayes, prọfesọ nke akụkọ nka na Mahadum Wisconsin São Milwaukee, kọwara ya dị ka "otu n'ime ndị omenkà kachasị mma na-amụta onwe ha nke si na Milwaukeee pụta".

Ndụ

A mụrụ ya na 20 Eprel 1921, Blackmon tolitere na Albion, Michigan. Nne ya, Gussie Blackmon, ónyé Baptist na-anụ ọkụ n'obi, sitere na Macon, Georgia. Nna ya, Dan Blackmon si Selma, Alabama. Ha kwagara n'ebe ugwu dị ka akụkụ nke Nnukwu Migration nke ndị Africa America si na Southern United States ịchọ ọrụ ka mmá na ịgbanahụ ịkpa ókè agbụrụ na ajọ mbunobi na South. Dị ka nwanne nwanyị Blackmon, Lyla M.Washington, si kwuo, nne na nna ha rutere Albion n'October 13, 1912, "di na nwunye dị afọ iri na ụma". Ha mechara nwee ụmụ iri na abụọ, ụmụ nwanyị asaa na ụmụ nwoke ise. Ezinụlọ ahụ biri na obéré ugbo dị nso na Albion n'ụlọ nwere ọnụ ụlọ ise nke Dan Blackmon wuru. Blackmon kwuru na mgbe ọ dị afọ asatọ, o buru amụma ọnwụ nke ónyé agbata obi ya mgbè ọ nụrụ "ọnwụ na-ada ụda" ya. Blackmon hapụrụ Washington Gardner High School na Albion na 1937 na klas nke iri iji soro nna ya chọọ ọrụ. Ọ rụpụtara nkume ma dozie okporo ụzọ màkà New York Central Railroad wee rụọ ọrụ nwa oge na Albion Malleable Iron Works, ụlọ ọrụ kachasị ukwuu na Albion.

Ihe ngosi na nchịkọta

N'afọ 1999, Patrick na Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Mahadum Marquette, haziri ihe ngosi nke onwé ya Signs of Inspiration : The Art of Prophet William J. Blackmon, ihe ngosi nka mbụ nke onye na-ese ihe. Jeffrey R. Hayes haziri ihe ngosi ahụ ma tinye ọrụ nnọchiteanya site n'oge niile nke ọrụ ya na ọrụ niile sitere na nchịkọta Paul na Jeanne Phelps nke ihe osise Blackmon. Blackmon so ndị na-ahazi na ndị na-ede akwụkwọ rụọ ọrụ. Ihe ngosi ahụ gàrà ebe atọ ọzọ; Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, City Museum na St. Louis, Missouri, na Brauer Museum of Art na Valparaiso, Indiana.

Edensibia

• Curtis L. Carter (1999). "Forward", Signs of Inspiration : The Art of Prophet William J. Blackmon. Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University. 
• M. Shawn Copeland (1999). "The Seeing Heart of the Prophet: Protest and Praise", Signs of Inspiration : The Art of Prophet William J. Blackmon. Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 23–27. 
• David K. Smith (1999). "Painting Pictures from God: Process and Meaning in the Art of Prophet Blackmon", Signs of Inspiration : The Art of Prophet William J. Blackmon. Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 29–39. 
• Chester J. Fontenot Jr. (1999). "Paintings that Speak and Heal: The Prophetic Art of Prophet Blackmon and the African American Prophetic Tradition", Signs of Inspiration : The Art of Prophet William J. Blackmon. Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 41–52. 

Ịgụ ihe ọzọ

• Hayes (1999). Signs of inspiration: The art of Prophet William J. Blackmon. Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-945366-07-2. 
• Raw Vision, T.L. Reid, Mbipụta 52, 2005, peeji nke 54-59

Njikọ mpụga

• Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Drawing praise to the Lord at the Wayback Machine (archived August 30, 2007) - Article about Blackmon by art critic Mary Louise Schumacher
• Stephenson. "Prophet sells his art for $100 or $1,000 but sets no price on reading people's souls", Journal Sentinel, 4 April 2002.