Feelings, Tom
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Tom Feelings, artist and illustrator, was best known for his book The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo (1995) which depicts life on the ships that brought slaves from Africa to America. Feelings was born in 1933, grew up in Brooklyn, and studied at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and later at the School of Visual Arts. In addition to The Middle Passage, Feelings illustrated numerous books, including Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987) and Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993), which were collaborations with Maya Angelou, and I Saw Your Face (2005), a collaboration with Kwame Senu Neville Dawes, which was published posthumously. He was also a professor of art at the University of South Carolina from 1989 to 1996. Feelings passed away in 2003.
From the guide to the Tom Feelings artwork., 1958-2003, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Artist and illustrator; b. 1933.
From the description of Thomas Feelings collection, 1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82963588
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Subjects:
- African American artists
- African American illustrators
- Art, American
- Artists
- Illustration of books
- Illustrators
- Slavery in art
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- African American artists
- African American illustrators
- Artists
- Illustrators
