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Friday, October 4, 2024 |
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Abstract Painter Al Loving, 69, Dies |
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Al Loving, “Spatial collage #3”. Acrylic on rag paper, 64 × 74″. 2004.
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KERHONKSON, N.Y.- Abstract painter and collage artist Al Loving, 69, died. In 1969 the Whitney Museum of American Art presented a solo exhibition of Al Loving. He was born Alvin Demar Loving Jr. in Detroit on September 19, 1935. Most black artists avoided abstract art, but Al Loving focused on it early on. His mother and grandmother were quilters. His father was a part-time sign painter. He studied fine arts at the University of Illinois. He got his master’s in fine arts at the University of Michigan in 1965. Works by Al Loving are part of the collections of the the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney.
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