(Though Camille and Bill Cosby have a notable collection of African-American art and own an early Lewis oil portrait ... scanned a gallery with his mature abstract paintings and admitted ...

In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by ... in 1967 on the side of a building in an African-American neighborhood in Chicago, which included ...

Most recently, 70 pieces from the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection were assembled for “Solidary and Solitary,” a traveling exhibition of African-American abstract art that opened at the Ogden Museum of ...

Al Loving, an innovative abstract ... figurative art describing the black experience. Loving soon became what one reviewer called “probably the leading figure in the hot African American ...

It is this dynamic that lies at the heart of the aesthetic struggles embarked upon by many African-American abstract artists today, and it is the failure to see this tradition in black people’s ...

and groundbreaking abstract expressionist Norman Lewis. Harold Braggs says it’s an honor to be part of a museum show at the DIA. “It represents part of the history of African-American artists, ...

visible influences from African models blend with the less tangible tradition of artistic improvisation that persists to this day in jazz and abstract art. “Those impulses are still going on ...

Gary Monroe, the author of the book "The Highwaymen: Florida’s African American Landscape Painters ... They made their oil paintings and took them on the road and had the audacity of hope ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — If you are a jazz music and abstract art fan, there's a new spot in town to explore. The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art's new exhibition explores both art forms with American ...