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From Fulton County Public Art Program

  1. Peace by Ronnie Phillips, Image 5.

    Ronnie Phillips

    Peace, 2019

    Mixed media, Acrylic paint and photograph

    15 x 30 in (38.1 x 76.2 cm)

  2. Patti Mayo by Thomas Higgins, Image 7.

    Thomas Higgins

    Patti Mayo, 2018

    Markers on toned tan paper

    24 x 18 in (60.96 x 45.72 cm)

  3. Paper 737 by Robert Brown, Image 2.

    Robert Brown

    Paper 737, 2015

    photo-litho

    42 x 29 in (106.68 x 73.66 cm)

  4. Peachtree by Diane Kirkland, Image 1.

    Diane Kirkland

    Peachtree

    Color photograph

    30 x 30 in (76.2 x 76.2 cm)

  5. Palette People #90 by Arthur Parks, Image 1.

    Arthur Parks

    Palette People #90

    Mixed media

    10 x 9 in (25.4 x 22.86 cm)

  6. Picturing the South poster by High Museam of Art, Image 1.

    High Museam of Art

    Picturing the South poster

    poster

    25 x 30 in (63.5 x 76.2 cm)

  7. Picasso Exhibition by High Museam of Art Poster, Image 1.

    High Museam of Art Poster

    Picasso Exhibition

    exhibition poster

    24 x 18 in (60.96 x 45.72 cm)

  8. Paul Jenkins Poster by Palm Springs Desert Museum, Image 1.

    Palm Springs Desert Museum

    Paul Jenkins Poster

    Poster

    27.5 x 44.75 in (69.85 x 113.67 cm)

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About the artist

Peter E. Clarke

South African

d. 2014

In a career spanning six decades, artist, poet, and activist Peter Clarke produced paintings, drawings, and prints that depicted the everyday lives and social and political struggles of South Africa’s marginalized communities under Apartheid. His work has been exhibited in South Africa and abroad; in 2011, he was the subject of a career retrospective at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg and the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. Clarke briefly studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, but as a so-called “colored” student (the category assigned Black students at the time), he was not allowed to enroll full-time under South Africa’s racial laws. He continued his studies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and the Atelier Nord in Oslo. Clarke’s flattened, angular style drew influence from Mexican muralism, German Expressionism, and Japanese woodcuts, while his interest in foregrounding African heritage and Black contemporary life welcomes comparisons to African American artists like Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence.