American painter Kehinde Wiley stands in front of a portrait of Alpha Condé, former president of Guinea, during the opening ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sojourner Truth, a revered woman, was very passionate about women’s rights. The famous African American abolitionist is best known for her speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?” at the Ohio Women’s ...

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not ... is often ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts' collection is world famous, and includes the ... selection of German Expressionist paintings, African Art, Native American Art, art from Asia and the Islamic world.