The NSCC Kisber Library subscribes to ArtStor, a database that includes nearly a million images. Even if you don’t have an art history class, it’s worth perusing just for its beauty.

This month, ArtStor is featuring the works of  Eugene James Martin:

ARTstor is sharing 200 images of works by African American artist Eugene James Martin through a collaboration with Suzanne Fredericq, widow of the artist. Martin’s vibrant abstract works include paintings on canvas, mixed media collages, and pencil, pen, and ink drawings. Throughout Martin’s oeuvre, organic forms and geometric shapes alternate with pure abstraction. His use of color is distinctive, contrasting broad swathes of intense color with finely worked areas of pastel shades. Martin also mixed whimsical allusions to animals and machines with wry cultural and personal references, creating introspective works infused with a gentle humor.

Eugene James Martin (1938-2005) was born in Washington, DC and trained at the Corcoran School of Art. Living most of his life in DC, he spent the last nine years of his life in Lafayette, Louisiana. His works of art can be found in numerous private collections and museum permanent collections, including the Munich Museum of Modern Art, the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Mobile Museum of Art, the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, the Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art at the University of Delaware, the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, the Stowitts Museum and Library, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Louisiana State University Museum of Art.

 Click here to see ArtStor’s collection of the works of Eugene James Martin. (Please note: this link works from on campus. If it is not working from where you are, please go to the NSCC Library homepage, click on Databases, and choose ArtStor. Then look up Eugene James Martin. If you are prompted for User IDs and password, those will be your A number and pin.)