Willie Burch
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- n 1985n
- n Offset Lithographn
- n Image/sheet: 22 x 30″n
- n 70 prints in this editionn
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About the Print
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Willie Birch’s art highlights the multilayered and emotional experiences of African American culture. A colorful and engaging urban street scene, Promise Land shows members of a Black congregation standing in front of a storefront house of worship in diversity-rich Brooklyn, NY.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records
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Willie Burch
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nBorn November 26, 1942n
nNew Orleans, LAn
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About the Artist
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New Orleans-born painter and sculptor Willie Birch earned a BA from Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA, and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore.
Birch’s work has been exhibited at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; McKinney Avenue Contemporary Museum, Dallas; and The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, among other institutions. His work is in major public collections including the Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN; The Delaware Contemporary; Harlem Hospital Center and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records