# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-colescott
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:04:21.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-colescott"
name: "Robert Colescott"
slug: "robert-colescott"
description: "Robert H. Colescott 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. Colescott's work is in many major public collections, including the Albright-Knox in Buffalo, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art."
tagline: "American painter (1925-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Colescott%2C_The_Baltimore_Sun_1988.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1925-08-26"
deathDate: "2009-06-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.680850666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Colescott"
    title: "Robert Colescott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "روبرت كوليسكوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Colescott"
    title: "Robert Colescott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Коулскотт, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Colescott"
    title: "Robert Colescott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Colescott"
    title: "Robert Colescott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2676807"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump