Three Wiese Ones and Friend
Red Bird
Acrylic on paper, 10x15 in.
Homme Vert
Legacy
Gentry Herbert
1919 - 2003
Gentry was an Expressionist painter who lived and worked in Paris,
France, Copenhagen, Denmark, in the Swedish cities of Gothenburg, Stockholm, and Malmö, and in New York City as a permanent resident of the Hotel Chelsea.
During the Harlem Renaissance his mother was an actress and dancer with friends who included Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and Duke Ellington. Gentry learned his craft by taking art classes at the Harlem YMCA and he went on to study art under the FAP (Federal Art Project) of the WPA (Works Progress Administration.)