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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary African-American painter known for his distinctive portraits. His subjects are often young black men and women, rendered in a Photorealist style against densely ...

Lead Belly is perhaps the best known name of the African Americans that helped define the genre, but you'll also find portraits of Mississippi John Hurt, Odetta, and Joshua Daniel White, and music by ...

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.

PORTSMOUTH — Portraits of Emerson Reed, Geraldine “Jeri” Cousins Palmer, Hazel Sinclair and more of the region’s influential Black forebears hang on walls of the Seacoast African American Cultural ...

Portraits from 1600 to 1900” exhibition, whose works are switched out periodically. It hangs in a room that also includes a bust of turn-of-the-20th-century African-American educator and author ...