Delilah Pierce


Delilah Williams Pierce was an African American artist, curator and educator based in Washington, District of Columbia. Pierce was best known for upholding the African American art in her model figure and genre painting, abstraction.

Biography

Pierce lived her life as an educator, artist and curator. After graduating from Miner Teachers College and Howard University, and Teachers College-Columbia University, Delilah went on to earn the Agnes-Meyer Fellowship, where she traveled and was influenced by the cultures and landscapes of London, Paris, Holland, Rome, Greece, Lebanon, the Holy Land, the River Jordan, Cairo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana, and Dakar.
She was a member of the Smith-Mason Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, as well as, the Old Sculpin Gallery and Cousen Rose Gallery’s in Massachusetts.
Her work is among the permanent collections in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, University of District of Columbia, Howard University, Evans-Tibbs Collection, Barnett-Aden Collection, Smith-Mason Gallery of Art, and Bowie State College.
A month before her death in 1992, she obtained an honorary degree from the University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC. She supported local education.

Notable works