#African American artist

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William H. Johnson, New Land Breaking, 1941

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Celebrating Black History Month with a selection of artworks and the art history of Black American artists.

Tar Beach Story Quilt • # 1 of 5 in the series Woman on a Bridge • 1988 • Acrylic paint, canvas, printed fabric, ink, and thread • The Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Ringgold’s creates quilts — a traditional American craft associated with women’s communal work that also has roots in African culture. She originally collaborated on the quilt motif with her mother, a dressmaker and fashion designer in Harlem. That Ringgold’s great-great-great-grandmother was a Southern slave who made quilts for plantation owners suggests a further, perhaps deeper, connection between her art and her family history. – The Guggenheim Museum

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Faith Ringgold

Mama Can Sing

2004

Silkscreen

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The Annunciation  -  Henry Ossawa Tanner , 1898.

African-American ,  1859 - 1937

Oil on canvas ,  140 cm × 181.0 cm     57 in × 71.25 in

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Kehinde Wiley (Nigerian-American, b.1977), Portrait of Melissa Thompson (detail), 2020, oil on linen.

Ms. Thompson in front of her portrait.

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Charles White

Two Alone, 1946

Oil on board.

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Lois Mailou Jones, Paris le Soir, ca. 1948-1950, oil/canvas (DeMell Jacobsen Foundation, Jacksonville)

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Let the Children March • Frank Morrison, illustrator • (American, b. 1971) • Author, Monica Clark-Robinson • Clarion Books, publisher • 2018

In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their rights after hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak. They protested the laws that kept black people separate from white people. Facing fear, hate, and danger, these children used their voices to change the world.

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ARCMANORO NILES

We Used To Go Out in a Oldsmobile (For a Moment All We Did Would Never End), 2023

oil and acrylic on canvas

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Norman Lewis, Carnivale II, 1962

oil on canvas, 64″ x 52″. Private Collection, Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York © Estate of Norman W. Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

For me, Norman Lewis was one of the great abstracts painters but he's overlooked generally.

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Samuel Joseph Brown (American, 1907-1994) • Smoking My Pipe • 1934 • Watercolor

Samuel Joseph Brown Jr. (1907–1994) was a watercolorist, printmaker, and educator. He was the first African American artist hired to produce work for the Public Works of Art Project, a precursor to the Work Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Brown often depicted the lives of African Americans in his paintings. He worked primarily in watercolor and oils, and he produced portraits, landscapes and prints. – Wikipedia

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Jacob Lawrence

Pool Parlor

1942

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Charles Ethan Porter (1847-1923) "Lilacs" (1890) Oil on canvas Located in the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, United States Porter was an American painter who specialized in still life painting. He was a student at the National Academy of Design in New York City and was one of the first African Americans to exhibit there. He was the only African-American artist at the turn of the century who painted in still life.

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Dox Thrash (American, 1893 - 1965), Untitled (Strike), ca. 1940, watercolor, 17⅛ in. × 12 in. (43.5 × 30.5 cm), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

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I hadn’t come across the work of Renee Stout before a visit to the Washington Museum Of Art at the weekend. This is ‘Burn for Love’, 2000, and I like it.

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HALE WOODRUFF

TOTEM, C. 1954

Oil on canvas

36 x 20 inches

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