David Driskell, artist & scholar
David C. Driskell ‑ an artist and a scholar in the field of African-American art – died from coronavirus on April 1, 2020.
Driskell was emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.
David Clyde Driskell was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the son of George Washington Driskell, a minister, and Mary Cloud Driskell, a homemaker. When he was five years old, he moved with his family to western North Carolina.
Driskell attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduating with a bachelor's degree in art in 1955; he also completed the summer program at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1953. After teaching for several years at Talladega College in Alabama, he went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree...