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Sam Middleton

1927–2015

United States

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Sam Middleton (April 2, 1927 – July 19, 2015) was an American mixed-media artist from New York City. He travelled all over the world with the US Merchant Marine, lived in Mexico and Sweden and eventually settled down in the Netherlands, where he "was part of the considerable contingency of expatriate African American artists". Living in Holland from 1961, he established himself as one of The Netherlands' premier artists.

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