Benjamin Leroy Wigfall
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Benjamin Leroy Wigfall
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Benjamin Leroy Wigfall (1930–2017) was an American abstract-expressionist painter, printmaker, teacher, gallery owner, and collector of African art. He was the founder of a community art space called Communications Village as a hub for residents in a Black neighborhood in Kingston, New York. At the age of 20, he was the youngest artist ever to have a painting purchased by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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American artist (1930-2017
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2024-03-30T13:01:33Z
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