Collection: CHARLES CRINER

Charles Criner was born in 1945 in Athens, Texas, a small town near Tyler.  Criner's childhood artistic training consisted merely of attempts to copy images from Walter Foster Art books.  In spite of Criner's lack of training, the young man's eyes were opened to the possibility of an artistic career at an early age.

Now a master print maker, the scenes of Criner's stone lithographs, the medium he best prefers, are biographical images pulled both from childhood memories and the artist's immediate environment; "My art reflects my beliefs and the things that I like to do.  Fishing has always been one of my favorite pastimes... I also love to recapture the Black experience in the form of people working in the fields. Presently Criner is the artist in residence at the Houston Museum of Print.