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Studio family portrait, 1960–1970s, by Rev. Henry Clay Anderson. ... One afternoon at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, a visitor was reading out loud the ...
That purpose fills the walls of the Cliff Gallery at Dallas College. The exhibit, titled Honor Endures, was created by Vinson ...
African American families can get free family portraits taken by Ellen M. Blalock, the Schweinfurth Art Center’s Artist in Residence, for Auburn’s Black Family Album. Participating families ...
A portrait believed to be of Mary Ann Tritt Cassell, c. 1839, is on extended loan to the Baltimore Museum of Art, where it goes on display this week.
The Obamas also supported African American artists in the White House when they acquired “Resurrection,” a painting by beloved DC artist Alma Thomas for the Old Family Dining Room, the room in ...
The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over 100 years, the image of an enslaved youth was erased. This is his story.
Shared Vision: Portraits of the CCH Pounder-Koné Collection in on view through March 2. African American Museum in Philadelphia. 701 Arch Street Phila.aampmuseum.org ©2025 The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Addison Scurlock (American, 1883-1964) was one of the most prolific and important African American portrait photographers in the 20th century, and his eponymous studio endured in Washington, ...
The Met has made key acquisitions of black art in recent years, including the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift and a group of African American portrait photographs from the 1940s and 1950s. The ...
Right: A 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch daguerreotype portrait with applied color of an unidentified boy by James P. Ball. Smithsonian American Art Museum, the L. J. West Collection of Early African American ...
The Obamas also supported African American artists in the White House when they acquired “Resurrection,” a painting by beloved DC artist Alma Thomas for the Old Family Dining Room, the room in ...