Trained as a painter and art historian, Driskell works principally in collage and mixed media. His paintings and prints have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the USA including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum and The Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. He has exhibited internationally in England, Holland, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, Japan and Chile. He has been the recipient of several foundation fellowships among which are the Harmon Foundation, three Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships and the Danforth Foundation.

Driskell was born in 1931 in Eatonton, Georgia, USA. He was educated at Howard University and received the Master of Fine Arts degree in 1961 from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He currently holds the title of Distinguished University Professor of Art, Emeritus, at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award in Art from Howard University in 1981 and from The Catholic University of America in 1996.

In October 1997, Driskell was awarded the President’s Medal, the highest honor the University of Maryland bestows on a member of its faculty. He received the Presidential Medal from William Jefferson Clinton in December 2000 as a National Endowment for the Humanities recipient. Upon his retirement from teaching at the University of Maryland in 1998, The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora was founded to promote his scholarship and service to the University.

David Driskell 1931-2020
Benin Woman
Color Woodcut (Artist's Proof-Untrimmed and in pristine condition)
Signed & dated, lower right: "Driskell 1974"
Provenance: Acquired from the artist, 2006
Sheet size: 21½ X 14⅜ inches
Frame size: 25¼ X 21¼ inches
Framed using all acid-free materials and Museum Glass
FC16023   $4,500
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David Driskell 1931-2020
Portrait of a Man, Seated at a Table
Pen & black ink on paper
Signed and dated, lower right: “Driskell 95”
Provenance: Acquired from the artist, 2007
Sheet size: Approximately 7 X 5 inches
Frame size: 12 X 10 inches
Framed using all acid-free materials and Museum Glass™
FC14020   $1,200
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