Robert S. Duncanson: African-American Painter in the Spotlight
Nearly 150 years after his death, African-American landscape painter Robert S. Duncanson made headlines last month. This happened when his Landscape...
Alexandra Kiely 27 February 2021
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Lavett Ballard’s African American and Female Narratives
Lavett Ballard‘s work is currently on show in two exhibitions, When She Roars is on at the Long-Sharp Gallery and Women Heal through Rite and...
Maia Heguiaphal 14 December 2020
The Fabulous Sculpture and Mysterious Life of Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis (c. 1844-1907) was quite a force of nature. She was an African-American and Native-American woman who became an...
Alexandra Kiely 13 February 2020
The Charles White Retrospective — Only the Beginning
Charles White was a prolific artist. The retrospective exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which opened on October 7 and will be...
Howard Schwartz 11 October 2018
Dream-like Artworks: Minnie Evans’ Divine Inspiration
Folk Art, Surrealist, Visionary, Americana, call it what you will. Minnie Evans’ (1892-1987) dream-like artworks speak of another world; a world...
Rachel Witte 14 August 2018
Henry Ossawa Tanner – African-American Artistic Pioneer
[caption id="attachment_4308" align="aligncenter" width="620"] The Thankful Poor, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1894, private collection.[/caption] Henry...
Alexandra Kiely 11 April 2017
