Shoeshine Boy (Signed Framed Print) by artist Joseph Holston

About the artist

Joseph Holston was born in 1944 at Washington, D. C.’s Freedmen’s Hospital, and grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland. For eight years he worked as a graphic artist while studying and developing his skills as a painter and printmaker. In 1972, he began his career as a full-time studio artist, and has had much success in the ensuing 40 years. He has produced a wide-ranging body of work that is included in permanent collections in public and private museums, universities and other institutions. Among these are the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Butler Institute of American Art; the Yale University Art Gallery; the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design; the Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; the Washington County Museum of Fine Art, Maryland; the University of Maryland University College; the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland; the Lyndon B. Johnson Library at the University of Texas; and Howard University. Mr. Holston’s work has become renowned and has been exhibited in many of these same museums and venues around the country. His exhibition “Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad” has been seen in numerous cities since 2008, and was presented in 2010 at the Palais des Nations of the United Nations Mission in Geneva, Switzerland.