Biggers, John Thomas, 1924-2001

found: Stories of illumination and growth [VR] : John Biggers' Hampton murals, 1992:container (John Biggers, John T. Biggers; painter, sculptor, printmaker, muralist, educator and author; grad. of Hampton Institute; headed Art Dept., Texas Southern Univ.)

found: N.Y. times, Jan. 30, 2001(John Biggers; painter, printmaker, sculptor; b. Gastonia, N.C., 1924; d. Thurs. [Jan. 26] at home in Houston, aged 76)

found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Biggers, John; John "Anansa" Thomas Biggers; painter and educator; born 24 April 1924 in Gastonia, North Carolina, United States; 1937 entered the Lincoln Academy, in 1941 enrolled at a black college in Virginia - Hampton Institute (later Hampton University); in 1943 he was drafted into the still-segregated U.S. Navy and served for two years as a visual arts specialist; BS and MS degrees (1948), and PhD in Education (1954), Pennsylvania State University; accepted a position to establish an art department at Texas Southern University, then called Texas State University for Negroes (1949); one of the first African American artists to travel extensively in Africa; died 25 January 2001 in Houston, Texas, United States)

found: Encyclopedia of African American artists, 2009:page 28 (John Biggers; served in the U. S. Navy from 1943 to 1945)