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 ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum / Gift of the Harmon Foundation The African American artist William H. Johnson (1901-1970) had been painting expressionist ... by a pseudo-folk sensibility that ...

The artwork borrows from classical easel painting techniques, posing African leaders in a style mainly associated with ...

The African American Museum of Dallas features one of the largest collections of African American folk art in the U.S. The museum displays African art, Black renaissance paintings, decorative arts ...

Artist Kehinde Wiley Puts Power in a New Frame With Paintings of African Leaders RABAT, Morocco (AP) — American artist Kehinde ... of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat, Morocco’s capital ...