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  Bayard Rustin

  American civil rights activist (1912–1987)

  Bayard Rustin
  Rustin at a news briefing on the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on August 27, 1963
  Born	(1912-03-17)March 17, 1912 West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
  Died	August 24, 1987(1987-08-24) (aged 75) New York City, U.S.
  Education	Wilberforce University Cheyney University City College of New York
  Organization(s)	Fellowship of Reconciliation Congress of Racial Equality War Resisters League Southern Christian Leadership Conference Social Democrats, USA (National Chairman) A. Philip Randolph Institute (President) Committee on the Present Danger Omega Psi Phi
  Movement	Civil Rights Movement, Peace Movement, Socialism, Gay Rights Movement, Neoconservatism
  Partner(s)	Davis Platt (1940s) Walter Naegle (1977–1987; Rustin's death)
  Awards	Presidential Medal of Freedom

  Bayard Rustin (BY-ərd; March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American political activist, a prominent leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rust

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  Bayard Hollins | Biography

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  Bayard Hollins' work explores the link between abstraction and figurative representation. Although the lines back to classical realism can be traced, Hollins' approach is absolutely modern. Spatial qualities and momentum are combined to exalt the rawness of nature. Earthly references to known objects and forms are allowed to remain undefined, demanding the viewer to engage his or her own imagination.
  
  Bayard uses what he sees as a starting point. Sometimes he uses aerial photos. He puts as much as he can on the canvas initially and then subtracts, scraping down and repeating and seeing what works together. He works on intuition, capturing the essences. Bayard explores the underlying energy and emotion of the physical world.
  
  He employs large broad planes of tone and color, often working with Tribal influences. Passages in the work have Indians and animals, planes and cars, houses- what we see is 50% tied to our imagination and how we perceive the history of a place. Bayard contemplates relationships of how we are looking at the planet we