caption movement death_date death_place influenced birth_place imagesize nationality field birth_date image article_title name
'' on canvas , hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden heartbreak hotel -lrb- 1990 -rrb- , '' oil surrealism june 4 , 2009 -lrb- aged 83 -rrb- tucson arizona darlene libbey oakland , california 300px american genre works august 26 , 1925 robertcheartbreak.jpg robert colescott
 robert colescott
robert colescott

robert h. colescott , -lrb- august 26 , 1925 -- june 4 , 2009 -rrb- was an american painter .
he is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects , often conveying his exuberant , comical , or bitter reflections on being african-american .
he studied with fernand léger in paris .
according to askart.com and artcyclopedia.com , his work is in many major public collections , including -lrb- in addition to the albright-knox -rrb- those of the museum of modern art in new york , the corcoran gallery of art , the san francisco museum of modern art , the museum of fine arts , boston , the hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden , and the baltimore museum of art .
