Bernice Lee ("Burr") Singer (born St. Louis, Missouri November 20, 1912; died Los Angeles, California November 18, 1992) was an American artist who worked in
Social Realism subject matter, principally in
watercolor,
oil paint, and
lithography. Singer is noted as a
painter
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of
African Americans
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who "spent the entire 1930s painting African-Americans because she said that nobody was painting them realistically. Everything else was
stereotypical
In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group. The type of expectation can vary; it can be, for example ...
,
caricature
A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, a ...
s."
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External links
Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951
1912 births
1992 deaths
20th-century American women painters
20th-century American painters
Painters from St. Louis
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