Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / ARS, NY / Museum of Modern Art / SCALA / Art Resource ... which became a critical marker in African-American history. Given opportunity, black ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum / Gift of the Harmon Foundation The African American artist William H. Johnson (1901-1970) had been painting expressionist landscapes in Europe for more than a ...

The museum hoped to incorporate “standing and rotating collections” from “African American art and artists of all varieties,” according to the Hundred Plan’s website. At the time ...

White’s mural, The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy (1943) at Hampton University is perhaps his best-known work, depicting famous African Americans across history. He saw art as a ...