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Russet-naped Wood Rail (Aramides albiventris), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Costa Rica

photograph by Rajan Tamhankar

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Yellow-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons), male, family Picidae, Atlantic Forest of Brazil

photograph by Glenn Bartley

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Russet-naped or Rufous-naped Wood Rail (Aramides albiventris), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Quintana Roo, Mexico

photograph by Klenisson Brenner

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Selan’s Beauty School (Chicago, 1988) - Melissa Ann Pinney

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Stills from "Alberta's Room" directed by Victoire Karera Kampire

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Dierdre Guion and Addie Webster's portraits from "Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats" by Michael Cunningham, published in 2000.

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Praise Dancers, Edna, Texas, 2022 from Hardtack - Rahim Fortune

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Golden-Olive Woodpecker (Colaptes rubiginosus), male, family Picidae, order Piciformes, Costa Rica

photographs by Feather Hunters CR

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Red-winged Parrot (Aprosmictus erythropterus), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, northern Australia

photograph by JJ Harrison

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Malaysian Rail-Babbler (Eupetes macrocerus), family Eupetidae, order Passeriformes, Malaysia

The only member of this family

photograph by Tay Gek Hiong

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Emir Hüsrev Dehlevi Divânı zahriye sayfası, Şiraz, M.S. 1430-31

Illuminated page from a Diwan of Amir Khusraw Dihlawi, Shiraz, dated A.D.1430-31

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Wenceslaus Hollar engravings

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Clementine Hunter, Melrose Quilt, ca. 1960, fabric, 73 x 60 in. (185.4x 152.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Barbara Coffey Quilt Endowment, 2014.5

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Clementine Hunter at Melrose Plantation, Natchitoches, LA.

Mrs Hunter began as a field hand at Melrose when she was twelve years old. Originally born at Hidden Hill Plantation in 1887, her family moved to Melrose as sharecroppers for the Henry family. Later she became a housekeeper, but it was while she was a cook that she found some discarded paints left behind by an artist at Melrose. Those discarded paints changed her life. Mrs Clementine Hunter’s paintings continue to touch those who view and admire her work each day.

She was a self-taught, primitive artist. Her unique African-American perspective, considered “insider art,” tells stories that historians overlooked while documenting plantation life. She captured the community of workers, the life of the “gears” that make plantations successful and prosperous.

In 1955, at the age of 68, Mrs Hunter completed her most famous work, the African House Murals. They were painted with oil on plywood and installed on the second floor of the African House at Melrose Plantation.

Original Color Photograph by Tom Whitehead,

Courtesy Melrose Plantation,

Re-touched Black and White Copy Image by Sohn Fine Art, Lenox, MA

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Doris Derby, “Rural family, Rome, Mississippi” (1968)

From A Civil Rights Journey by Doris Derby,

MACK, 2021, image courtesy the artist and MACK

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Cotton  -   Kara Walker ,  1996–97

American, b. 1969 -

Etching and aquatint on chine collé , 29.8 × 22.5 cm.    11 ¾ × 8 7/8 in.

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