Leroy E. Mitchell, Jr.
Self-Portrait, 1949
Oil on canvas
20 x 26 in (50.8 x 66 cm);
framed 24 x 30 in (61 x 76.2 cm)
framed 24 x 30 in (61 x 76.2 cm)
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Leroy E. Mitchell, Jr. (n.d.) was a Michigan-born painter whose works have been otherwise forgotten and whose biography is mostly limited to anecdotal accounts. Mitchell studied art at Wayne State...
Leroy E. Mitchell, Jr. (n.d.) was a Michigan-born painter whose works have been otherwise forgotten and whose biography is mostly limited to anecdotal accounts. Mitchell studied art at Wayne State University before exhibiting in the Detroit Institute of Arts’ annual exhibitions of 1947, 1950, and 1956. Friends of Mitchell have reported that he was a Pan-African intellectual, running for the Secretary of Treasury of the Freedom Now Party in 1963. In the early 1960s, he is thought to have moved to Ghana, where he taught at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. In 1988, he published his book, Africa Come Back, with the support of the Ghanaian government.