Louis Jessup Delsarte III was an African-American artist known for what has sometimes been called his "illusionistic" style.
12 Facts About Louis Delsarte
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When Delsarte was growing up, he was surrounded by music including jazz, opera, musicals, and the blues.
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Louis Delsarte was a professor of Fine Arts at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Louis Delsarte went to high school in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood, received a certificate in Fine Arts Education from Brooklyn College, earned his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at New York's Pratt Institute, and obtained a master's degree in Fine Arts at the University of Arizona.
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Louis Delsarte's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at museums, galleries, and other venues throughout the United States, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, the Bodley Gallery, the California Afro-American Museum, the Camille Hanks Cosby Museum at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Howard University fine arts gallery.
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In 2001, Louis Delsarte's work was included as part of a national traveling exhibition entitled "When the Spirit Moves: African-American Dance in History and Art".
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In 2001, Louis Delsarte completed a large public mural commissioned by the city of New York.
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Louis Delsarte received further national recognition in August 2005 when the United States Postal Service issued a stamp featuring a Louis Delsarte painting.
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The stamp depicts the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, taken from a Louis Delsarte painting created in 2000.
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Also in 2005, Louis Delsarte completed another monumental public mural, this one entitled "Spirit of Harlem".
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Louis Delsarte's paintings are generally figurative and notable for their complex, layered look, enlivened with rapidly executed strokes in strong colors, as Adrienne Klein notes in an interview with the artist available online at the Union College website.
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Louis Delsarte died on 2 May 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 75.