A painting bought for $10 at a thrift store near Philadelphia may be a unique masterpiece by Black painter William Henry ...

Historically, people in the African Diaspora were treated by European painters as props or scenery rather than as subjects, so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of ...

A watercolor painting by 19th-century Philadelphia artist William H. Dorsey is now on display at the Historical Society of ...

such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once,” the artist has explained. “The desire to look at a black American culture as underserved, in need of representation, a desire to ...

A previously lost painting representing 19th-century Black wealth and high culture in Philadelphia is now on view at the ...

Let us know! A previously lost painting representing 19th-century Black wealth and high culture in Philadelphia ... who once displayed works at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Dorsey is ...

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 ... went on to ...

Nearly 50 paintings by Amy Sherald, well known for her realist portraits of Black people, are on view at the San Francisco ...

The painting, simply titled "Christine", is of Christine Davis, an American ... the arts from a young age. At the age of 17, he enrolled at Government College, Ibadan, where he studied fine ...

The iconic painting depicts a lively night at a Black music hall in mid-century ... Prior to Blanton, the painting was at Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The Mint developed a relationship with ...

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts online ad for its big summer ... which looks at the influence of African art on Picasso and the artist's subsequent impact on contemporary African artists.