found: John Outterbridge, c1994:p. 2 of end pages (John Outterbridge; b. Greenville, N.C., 1933)
found: OCLC database, 2/6/95(hdgs.: Outterbridge, John Wilfred, 1933- ; Outterbridge, John W.)
found: L.A. rising : SoCal artists before 1980, 2010:page 350 (John Outterbridge; born 1933; assemblage, sculpture; black artist active in Compton, Calif.)
found: Wikipedia, January 3, 2022:(John Outterbridge; born March 12, 1933; died November 12, 2020 in Los Angeles, California; African American artist and community activist living in Los Angeles, California; first director of the Watts Towers Art Center, and served in that role for seventeen years)
found: African American National Biography, accessed March 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Outterbridge, John; assemblage artist, arts organization administrator; born 12 March, 1933 in Greenville, North Carolina, United States; studied engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University, in Greensboro, North Carolina (1951); completed formal artistic study at the American Academy of Art (1955); enlisted in the U.S. Army (1952-1955), was stationed in Germany, became unofficial artist of his army division; worked as a bus driver for Chicago Transit Authority (1955); produced series of sculptural works, infusing African elements into his art; became an arts administrator at Pasadena Art Museum (1967-1992), co-founder of Communicative Arts Academy, Compton; director of Watts Towers Art Center in Los Angeles (1970s-1990s); had retrospective exhibition at the California African-American museum, Los Angeles, (1993-1994); his works were shown in Brazil and South Africa)
found: Artnet News WWW site, December 23, 2020(John Outterbridge; died 2020, Los Angeles)
