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, Kentucky, daughter of Obediah Jefferson Hammons and Susannah Garland. ., Kentucky, daughter of Obediah Jefferson Hammons and Susannah Garland. ..

, Kentucky, daughter of Obediah Jefferson Hammons and Susannah Garland. ., Kentucky, daughter of Obediah Jefferson Hammons and Susannah Garland. ..

At the age of twenty, he moved to Los Angeles and attended the Los Angeles City College for a year. Then he went to Los Angeles Technical College and Otis Art Institute where he studied advertising. While at Otis, Hammons sought out Charles White, a draughtsman and printmaker who Hammons had initially found out about through exhibitions and reproductions and eventually studied privately with him. At that time African Americans studying artists for thirty and forty years was a shock to Hammons and other black artists. 2 In the late 1960s, young artists emerged in the climate of Black Power and Black Cultural Nationalism.

At the age of twenty, he moved to Los Angeles and attended the Los Angeles City College for a year. Then he went to Los Angeles Technical College and Otis Art Institute where he studied advertising. While at Otis, Hammons sought out Charles White, a draughtsman and printmaker who Hammons had initially found out about through exhibitions and reproductions and eventually studied privately with him. At that time African Americans studying artists for thirty and forty years was a shock to Hammons and other black artists. 2 In the late 1960s, young artists emerged in the climate of Black Power and Black Cultural Nationalism.
A good hammons site: http://www.artincontext.org/artist/h/david_hammons/

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