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African American artist (1893–1965)

Dox Thrash (1893–1965) was an African-Americanartist who was famed as a skilled draftsman, master printmaker, and painter and as the co-inventor of the Carborundum printmaking process.^[1] The subject of his artwork was African American life.

He served as a printmaker with the W.P.A.

African-American artist Dox Thrash was born in the small city of Griffin, Georgia on March 22, While working for the federally funded Fine Print Workshop.

African-American artist Dox Thrash was born in the small city of Griffin, Georgia on March 22, While working for the federally funded Fine Print Workshop.

Born in Griffin, Georgia, Thrash lived with his parents and three siblings in a former enslaved people's cabin on the outskirts of town.

The Thrash Family​​ Dox Thrash is born to Gus and Ophelia Thrash in Griffin Georgia, a small town in Spalding County.

*Dox Thrash, born on this date in , was a Black artist and printer.

During the Great Depression Thrash was the first Black artist to be employed by the Fine Art Workshop, a WPA program.

at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia. The artist spent much of his career living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[1]

Early life

Dox Thrash was born on March 22, 1893, in Griffin, Georgia.^[2] He was the second of four children in his family.

Thrash left home at the age of fifteen in search of work up north. He was part of the Great Migration (African American) looking for industrial work in the North.

The first job that Thrash got was working with a circus and a Vaudeville act.

In 1911, at the age of 18, he moved to Chicago, Illinois.^[3] He got a job as an elevator operator during the day, an