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Allie McGhee

1941–

United States

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Allie McGhee (born in 1941, in Charleston, West Virginia) is a Detroit-based African American painter and pillar of the Detroit art community since the 1960s. Allie McGhee attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, MI, and completed his undergraduate work at Eastern Michigan University in 1965. McGhee’s paintings are lyrical, material-driven works rendered in swirling constellations of industrial paint and found media.

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