Mario Moore's bold portraits explore the nature of veneration, self-determination, and the continuum of history.

A massive oil painting featuring ... people” welcomes visitors to the African American Museum of Philadelphia’s sprawling ...

Canadian-born artist Albert Slark created this full-color oil portrait of Marian Anderson ... cent Douglass stamp marked the first time an African American was included in a “regular” stamp ...

Her dynamic 1934 oil painting “The Choir" shows ... s Savannah work is a straightforward 1940 watercolor portrait of a young African-American girl, Arabella Martin, seated outdoors wearing ...

A Princeton University artist has created a series of paintings that celebrate African American workers like his ... Moore’s series of oil portraits is not of professors or university presidents ...

Street, and most strikingly, they are now recognized as the earliest known portraits of an African American couple. Bill Pickens decided to loan the paintings to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

When she flipped open the paper, she found a portrait of herself ... The woman was Barbara Jordan, the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first ...

In the halls of the U.S. Capitol hangs a portrait of Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected ... before the painting was unveiled. Oil portraits like Chisholm’s are usually ...

Both artists were African Americans with non-traditional sensibilities. The portraits have become among the most popular paintings in the National Portrait Gallery and are currently on a seven ...

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 ...