by Mashadi Matabane, Graduate Student in the Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University, and Graduate Assistant to Randall Burkett, Curator of African American Collections in MARBL
Sketch of Man Bent Over Picking Cotton,
John Biggers Papers
Dr. John Thomas Biggers (1924-2001) was a versatile American artist and art educator whose particular mix of murals and drawings made artistic appeals and references to identity, community, and Africa throughout a long career beginning in the 1940s. MARBL's acquisition of the John Biggers Papers, 1950-2001 contains a multitude of materials that demonstrate how the working life of one man ultimately created a masterful life's work.
