藝術家Nelson A. PRIMUS (c.1842-1916) 生平簡歷

出生地： Hartford, CT

死亡地点： San Francisco, CA

地址： Hartford, until c.1865; Boston, c.1865-at least 1895; San Francisco, CA

职业： Portrait and religious painter

教育： at Hartford, CT, apprenticed to George Francis in 1858, also received instruction from Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome in Hartford.

工作： de Young Mus.; Oakland Mus.

评论： African-American artist. Primus worked as a portrait and carriage painter in Hartford, later moving to Boston where he painted religious subjects and portraits. In 1895 he made his way to California via the Isthmus of Panama. In San Francisco he worked at a delicatessen and lived in Chinatown, painting in his spare time.

来源： G&W (cite birthdate as 1843); Porter, Modern Negro Art, 52-53; French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 155; Hughes, Artists in California, 448 (cites a birth date of 1866); Art in Conn.: Early Days to the Gilded Age (gives birthdate of 1842).