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Biography · Visual Arts
Floyd Newsum
1950–2024
United States
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Floyd Elbert Newsum Jr. (November 3, 1950 – August 14, 2024) was an American artist, educator and co-founder of Project Row Houses, a development merging art, cultural identity and community action in Houston, Texas' Third Ward. As an artist he was best known for his large, colorful, childlike paintings filled with personal iconography and West African motifs.
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