Bryan's most celebrated works include “Freedom Over Me,” “Beautiful Blackbird” and “Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum,”
Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing announced that the longtime Maine resident died “peacefully” Friday in Texas, where he had been staying with relatives.
Bryan was a Harlem native who showed an early talent for drawing and for a time was the only Black student at the art school at Cooper Union in Manhattan. He served in a segregated military unit for two years during World World II, an experience he recounted in his memoir “Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace,” and resumed his art studies after the war.
Survivors include his brother Ernest, and “many cherished” nieces and nephews, according to Simon & Schuster. Mills had proclaimed July 13, 2020, as Ashley Frederick Bryan Day in Maine to mark Bryan’s then-97th birthday. A memorial service will be held in Isleford this July 13.During World War II, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and fought in Europe, hiding drawing materials in his gas mask so he could sketch his fellow soldiers, theHe was part of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, at Omaha Beach in June 1944.
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