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 ...
Several years ago, the owners of an old, dusty painting walked into an art gallery in Vienna. They presented experts with a ...
"Klimt gives him such a dignity and warmth. It is touching, because you feel this is a person you know." In 2023, an Austrian ...
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 ...