Even the taxi men may smile. They know him. He is "the stout feller with the black stick who lives in the ... Upstairs are the proud portraits of Cromwell and the collection of tools.

Its stiff pose and bland facial expression echo thousands of similarly banal portraits – whether painted or sculpted ... a stream of banal likenesses of various presidents and iconic figures such as ...

The subjects of Casteel’s portraits have a similar ... said that she chose black men as her subjects in order to place a different gaze on figures who went unnoticed and unknown on the street.