Adolphus Ealey (1941–1992) was an American artist, curator, educator, writer, and entrepreneur.
[4][1] He received a master's degree (1964) at Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris,[5] and a Ph.D. in art from the University of Wisconsin.
[7][8] Later the collection was located at the Museum of African American Art in Tampa, Florida (which has since closed).
[9][10] He took an anthropological approach to the collection of objects, emphasized culture and organized them around a village concept.
[4] He had AIDS and died of kidney failure on November 11, 1992, at Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C..[1] He has artist files at the National Gallery of Art Library;[13] and he is included in the public museum collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art.