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Eugene J. Martin
American painter
Eugene James Martin (July 24, 1938 – January 1, 2005) was an African-Americanvisual artist.
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Art
Eugene J. Martin's art is best known for his imaginative, complex mixed mediacollages on paper, his often gently humorous pencil and pen and inkdrawings, and his paintings on paper and canvas that may incorporate whimsical allusions to animal, machine and structural imagery among areas of "pure", constructed, biomorphic, or disciplined lyrical abstraction.
Martin called many of his works straddling both abstraction and representation "satirical abstracts".[1] He did not create sculptures.
Life
Eugene James Martin was born on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
His parents were Margaret Helen Dove and James Walter Martin, an itinerant Jazz musician. After his mother died in 1942 giving birth to Jerry Martin, the two brothers were placed in foster care in Washington, D.C. As a child, Eugene ran away on several occasions, was placed in