so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...

White’s mural, The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy (1943) at Hampton University is perhaps his best-known work, depicting famous African Americans across history. He saw art as a ...

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...

I first became aware of the Montier family history back in 2009 when the portraits of Hiram and Elizabeth Montier came to The Philadelphia Museum of Art. The paintings were ... and they confirmed that ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts' collection is world famous, and includes the ... selection of German Expressionist paintings, African Art, Native American Art, art from Asia and the Islamic world.

Should a city owing $18 billion sell its prestigious art collection? The Detroit Institute of Arts' collection is world famous, and includes the first Van Gogh to be owned by an American arts museum, ...

The African American Museum of Dallas features one of the largest collections of African American folk art in the U.S. The museum displays African art, Black renaissance paintings, decorative arts ...