Tar Beach: Faith Ringgold’s Journey from Story Quilts to Picture Books
With the publication of Tar Beach in 1991, Faith Ringgold launched her career as a picture book author and illustrator. Her interest in picture books...
Guest Author 2 April 2026
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Faith Ringgold, Sunflowers, and Van Gogh
Faith Ringgold’s The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles is part of the artist’s series of mixed media works titled The French Collection, in which...
Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 23 March 2026
Masterpiece Story: Portrait of Madeleine by Marie-Guillemine Benoist
What is the message behind Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of Madeleine? The history and tradition behind this 1800 painting might explain...
Jimena Escoto 8 March 2026
Masterpiece Story: Portrait of Zaga Christ by Giovanna Garzoni
The remarkable Portrait of Zaga Christ is considered the earliest known portrait of a Black sitter in Western art. It represents an unusual...
Guest Author 1 March 2026
Colonial Looting of African Art: A Century in Exile
Have you ever wondered how European modern artists were inspired by African art? They certainly didn’t travel to the continent. The answer is...
Jimena Escoto 25 February 2026
Clementine Hunter: Painting Black Life from Memory
Clementine Hunter taught herself to paint in her fifities and spent the rest of her life chronicling the Black Southern experience, not with slogans...
Wen Gu 23 February 2026
QUIZ: Art and Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Theodore Carter 21 February 2026
Fanny Eaton—Pre-Raphaelite Muse from Jamaica
Fanny Eaton was a regular model for the Pre-Raphaelites during the 1860s and features in a number of famous works. Yet for most of the last century,...
Catriona Miller 19 February 2026
Colonial Looting of African Art
Have you ever wondered how European modern artists were inspired by African art? They certainly didn’t travel to the continent. The answer is...
Jimena Escoto 15 February 2026
William H. Johnson in 10 Artworks—From Post-Impressionism to Folk Art
William H. Johnson’s paintings show a breadth of styles ranging from realism to Post-Impressionism, and later a folk art aesthetic that would...
Theodore Carter 12 February 2026
Jacob Lawrence and the Great Migration
As a child of the Great Migration, Jacob Lawrence was well placed to undertake such a mammoth task in detailing the journey from the rural South that...
Wendy Gray 12 February 2026
