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 ...

an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age, comes from the diary of the man who painted his striking portrait. Charles William Peale was an American portrait painter who established ...

“This is a historic day, where we will unveil new portraits for the Kentucky Women Remembered exhibit. What we choose to hold ...

Macon Bolling Allen went on to become the nation's first African American judge and was a partner at the first Black-led firm ...

Portraits of historical significance exude ... Curated works from Pounder’s collection have been staged at African American museums in Detroit and Chicago. In the summer of 2023, Duckett went ...

A Portrait of Persistence featured more than 120 portraits and objects spanning 1832 to 1965. View selections from the exhibition on the Google Arts and Culture website. The Smithsonian’s National ...

Pickens believed the President’s story had significant ties to the interracial history of his own family. He contacted the museum, and they confirmed that portraits of African American sitters from ...

For her debut solo exhibition in New York, Sherald takes twenty-first American realism, broadens it, and spins it on its ...

The Portraits of Resistance and Resilience Exhibition ... The gallery shows 11 quilts honoring African American women with Wake County Roots — their legacies memorialized through stitches ...

Macon Bolling Allen went on to become the nation's first African American judge and was a partner at the first Black-led firm in South Carolina. The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873.