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Chuck Close(1940-)Began as a photo-realistic painter, then worked toward abstractionSuffered from a collapsed spinal artery in 1988, leaving him paralyzed in a wheelchair

Chuck Close,Big Self-Portrait,

1967-1968acrylic on canvas.

107 ½” x 83 ½”

Chuck Close,Leslie, 1986.Watercolor.

Chuck Close,Fanny, 1985.Fingerpainting.

Chuck Close,Lucas, 1986-87.Oil Paint.

Chuck Close, John, 1971-72.

Chuck Close,Self Portrait,

2000.

Chuck Close,Emma, 1986-87.113-color Japanese-style woodcut!

Chuck Close,Self-Portrait, 1991.Oil Paint.

Chuck Close,Roy, 1994.Oil Paint.

Chuck Close,Lyle, 2003.Silkscreen.

Faith Ringgold(1930-)

Born in Harlem in 1930Her mother, a Fashion

Designer, taught her how to sew

Stories on quilts related to African-American heritage

(Great-great-great-grandmother was a slave)

She is still a professor of Art at the University of

California in San Diego

Faith Ringgold, Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles, 1991.

Faith Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre, 1991.

Faith RinggoldTar Beach, 1988.

Faith RinggoldTar Beach 2,

1990.