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Obituary: Norman Parish, Gallery Owner and Artist
Parish, 75, died at his home Germantown on Monday, July 8. He owned one of the best-known black-owned galleries in the country, The Washington Post reports.
Leader of the Chicago’s Black Arts Movement and Georgetown gallery owner, artist Norman Parish died in his Germantown home on Monday, 8, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Parish, 75, had a brain tumor, his son Norman Parish III told The Washington Post. His funeral was Saturday at Unity Christ Church of Gaithersburg, according to a message at his gallery’s website.
Form 22 years, Norman Parish ran Parish Gallery in Georgetown, which The Washington Post described as one of best-known black-owned art galleries in the country.
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The artist grew up in New Orleans but his family moved to Chicago to escape the Jim Crow South, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
He helped paint the famed mural 1967 mural, “The Wall of Respect,” which poet Gwendolyn Brooks references in her poem, The Wall. The mural has since been razed, the Sun-Times reports.
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He continued to paint when he moved to the Washington region in the 1980s, according The Post.
Please read the accounts the Chicago Sun-Times, SunTimes.com, and at The Washington Post, WashingtonPost.com.
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