The Atlanta art community mourns the loss of Henry C. Porter, pioneering artist and printmaker, who passed away on April 28 at the age of 87. Mr. Porter had a long and distinguished career as an artist and continued to paint until a few months before his death.
He was born in Bishopville, SC and lived most of his life in New York and Georgia. He entered Morgan State University on a football scholarship in 1940 and was drafted into the army while in college. He later resumed his education, studying painting at the Academy of Arts in Newark, NJ, and graphic design and illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. For the next thirty years he operated his own freelance graphic studio in New York City, winning awards and corporate contracts for his point-of-sale displays, costumes, and packaging design. He also embarked on a career as a fine artist, a calling to which he would devote himself full-time after moving to Kennesaw, GA in 1980. As an artist he found acclaim for his polished figurative paintings and his highly charged abstracts on plexiglas.
Henry Porter has had a number of gallery, institution, and museum shows that include the Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., Harriet Tubman Museum, Macon, GA., Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA., and Morris Brown College in Atlanta, GA.
He will be remembered as a man who had strong convictions and who was ever looking for the next challenge. He will be memorialized in a service in Marietta, GA on May 8.
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