The Brown brief is part of The Kinsey Collection, an extraordinary repository of art ... an African American woman, letters from Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, quilts by Bisa Butler, paintings ...

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens announced Tuesday two new additions to its collection of African-American art ... Both paintings were gifts from California-based ...

(WDAM) - Next year, the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art will feature exhibits ... is set to open with a display of paintings, prints and sculpture by African-American artists. And during baseball ...

“Detroit Collects: Selections of African-American Art from Private Collections ... by critics to be the first famous African-American artist. His 1856 painting “Flight of the Eagle ...

Both father and son are artists who have created hundreds of paintings, mostly portraits of notable African Americans who’ve made a lasting contribution to American culture. They created a ...

Charles White was an American artist known for murals and prints which often portrayed African ... at Hampton University is perhaps his best-known work, depicting famous African Americans across ...

instead creating paintings that empower their subjects by injecting African-American voice into art history. By painting a nude in the same pose as Courbet or Manet, but one whose black identity ...

The National Portrait Gallery’s much hyped Michael Jackson: On the Wall exhibition — Wiley’s 10ft painting is the ... making him the first African-American official portraitist of an ...

American artist Kehinde Wiley has unveiled an exhibition in Morocco of portraits of African leaders as part of a yearslong series exploring politics and image-making Credit: AP Credit: AP RABAT ...

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 ...

Growing up in Kansas City, Hughes knew about the famous ... to the American art canon, he was very much bent on helping to tell the history of African-Americans by painting murals," Driskell ...