Blanch Ackers
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BornNovember 28, 1914
DiedMay 24, 2003 (aged 88)
Blanch Ackers | |
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| Born | November 28, 1914 |
| Died | May 24, 2003 (aged 88) |
Blanch Ackers (November 28, 1914 – May 24, 2003) was an African-American folk artist,[1][2] who was born in Arkansas but spent most of her life in Michigan. She began drawing and painting while in her seventies, and her work has been acquired by the University of Michigan Museum of Art.[2]
Ackers was born in 1914 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to Paul (a poor sharecropper)[2] and Harriet (Williams) Markham.[3] She had one brother, James Markham.[3]