Varnette Honeywood

Visual Artist

1950 –

62

Who is Varnette Honeywood?

Varnette Patricia Honeywood was an American painter, writer, and businesswoman whose paintings and collages depicting African American life hung on walls in interior settings for The Cosby Show after Camille and Bill Cosby had seen her art and started collecting some of her works. Her paintings also appeared on television on the Cosby Show spin-off A Different World, as well as on the TV series Amen and 227.

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Born
Dec 27, 1950
Los Angeles
Also known as
  • Varnette P. Honeywood
Education
  • University of Southern California
  • Spelman College
Died
May 4, 2024
Los Angeles

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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