John Biggers: My America

The works on display fall into the category of social realism and date from the 1940s and 50s, when abstract theorists dominated American painting. An African-American, Biggers was born and raised in the segregated South. Educated in art, he had a Ph. D. from Penn State; well aware of abstraction, Biggers chose instead to illustrate the outward struggles and inner strengths he witnessed in his America.