Parks, Gordon : Biographical file. [1900-9999]

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Parks, Gordon : Biographical file. [1900-9999]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45283848

May contain: Resumes, newspaper articles, magazine articles, invitations to exhibition openings, gallery hand-outs, check-lists of exhibitions, advertisements, obituaries, 35 mm. slides of the artist's work.

1 envelope : manila ; 13 x 10 in.

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

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Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

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Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006

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A versatile and prolific artist, Gordon Parks, Sr., warrants his status as a cultural icon. The poet, novelist, film director, and preeminent documentary and fashion photographer was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas, the youngest of fifteen children. Parks saw no reason to stay in Kansas after the death of his mother and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, at age sixteen to live with his sister. After a disagreement with his brother-in-law, Parks soon found himself homeless, supporting...